Chapter 3- Builds
Like in most video games, you must choose a build for yourself. You can be anything The Arch-mage, casting spells and disintegrating enemies, The Dread-naught, shrugging off hits that would kill lower beings, or The Reaper, taking lives and souls with the sweep of your blade. The choices are as endless as you wish them to be. Work on certain skills, stats, and upgrades to broaden your horizons.
Sticky note -
Zuku, I honestly have know idea what to tell you about this, just keep in mind everything you know about One for All and forge your own path in life.
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[BattleLog: Enemies: 2x Shadow Mastiff
Attacks: (Select to Expand)
Damage taken: (Select to Expand)
Xp gain: 800
Level Progress: 1800/1773 102.5%
Level up!]
[BattleLog: Enemies: 1x Shadow Mastiff 2x Shadow Imps
Attacks: (Select to Expand)
Damage taken: (Select to Expand)
Xp gain:
Level Progress: 2950/3775 78.2%]
(Trumpet Sounds)
[Congratulations Gamer!
You have reached level 3!
You have gained the following:
5 Bonus Stat Points]
Izuku felt tingly, casting magic was exhilarating, while he only knew the single spell. He was quickly growing to like magic, the feeling of build up and release was euphoric. The worst part was running out of Mana, in a fight with a Shadow Imp, he had run out and was hit with such a splitting headache that he could barely move, Seiren stepped in to help.
"Keep track of all of your bars. Obviously running out of Hp would kill you, Mana will make it almost impossible to fight and Stamina will knock you out. Akito heal him and we'll go to the second floor." Akito cast the spell again and had cast a second spell on him.
[You have gained the Buff: Matriarchal Protection]
"What's that do?"
Akito smiled, not her usual smile, "It's a spell mom made for us. It gives the person buffed two things, the first is a boost to HP and the second is a death shield. If you take a hit that would reduce your HP to 0 it will knock everything back by 50 feet and revert your HP back to 1."
Izuku saw stars, but before he could ask Akito finished, "I'm sorry but I can't teach it to you, Mom made it with us in mind and so the Gamer made it only work for us and her. You'd have to find your own version."
"Oh." Izuku looked down at his hands, "She sounded like an amazing person."
Seiren spoke, "She was, and that person trusted the Gamer and the future to you." Helping him to his feet, "Now prove you're worthy."
She marched down the left corridor of the T junction, with Akito and Izuku trailing behind. As they rounded the corner, they entered at the top of a staircase which lead down into a massive room. It was decorated in tapestries of subdued colors, black wooden beams, and walls of black Obsidian stone. Hanging from the ceilings was large chandeliers made of black crystal that shone of black and purple light.
While all of that awed Izuku, What really caught his attention though, was the mass of shadowy ghost looking monsters that danced around themselves. "There's so many, how are we going to clear it?"
"We'll use the staircase as a choke point, I'll use a summon as a tank, you'll be behind it taking shots at the mass with Mana Bullet and punches if something gets to close. Akito and I will be behind you with spells. Got it?"
Izuku nodded at Seiren, who gave him a hard look. Turning around she started, "[Summon Celestial Bear]." After about 30 seconds a blue and gold bear appeared out of a swirling vortex of white and blue. It was massive and was nearly as wide as the staircase. He used [Observe] on it.
[Celestial Bear
Summon of Seiren Hale
You have encountered a being whose level and stats far surpass your own. Level up to reveal more information about them.]
"That's new." It was Akito.
Seiren smirked as she turned around, "While I was gone I encountered a few new things, made a few deals and worked a couple of things. I'm not the same girl I was back then."
Mumbling to Izuku, "Still as big headed as before."
Izuku held in a snicker.
"Everyone ready?" Akito did a one arm whoop, and Izuku nodded with a smile, "Izuku use [Observe] on one of the ghosts. After that we'll start."
Walking behind the bear and mentally preparing himself he used, "[Observe]."
[Shadow Remnants
Level: Special
Health: Special
Mana: Special
Stamina: Special
(This creature comprises of many individual enemies that are level 2.)
Be warned Gamer, these remnants of the past have danced for eternity and will do everything they can to continue to do so.]
"That's terrifying."
"Don't worry Zuku we'll keep you safe and you have mom's buff. You'll be fine."
Izuku looked at Akito, a girl he barely knew, but one that has gone through so much more than him. A kid who lost her mother to a villain, holding more sure and without worry compared to him. He steeled his nerves and turned toward the enemy.
"Izuku you're the opening salvo. Just aim Mana Bullet into the crowd."
Izuku had learned in his second fight against a Shadow Imp, that he was able to summon Mana Bullet multiple times creating his own mini artillery. It was after his second time using this method he was granted a skill.
[New Sub-Spell Created!
Mana Array Lvl: Max
Draining your Mana, you are able to create many smaller versions of Mana Bullet that deal half damage, at half the cost.]
Burning through 1000 Mana, he aimed broadly at the mass of monsters below him. After the cast time past he let loose and a hundred mini bullets rained down onto the enemies.
The reaction was almost instant. While a few acted sluggish, almost all of them dashed up the stairway and let loose a scream that reverberated across the room. The scream was so loud and throaty that the chandeliers and stone staircase shook. Izuku noticed a prompt in the top right.
[Gamer's Mind has negated the following Status Effect:
Wail of Lost Souls]
'That didn't look good.' As he finished reading, the first enemies reached the Celestial Bear, which as its size implied, made a very effect wall. The shadows smashed into the bear, which stood firm. Akito had cast a spell with her knife that caused tiny red balls of light to fling out into the enemy and after a brief pause, they erupted into columns of fire that reached the ceiling.
Izuku as his contribution was pretty much over with, was stuck watching as the bear mauled through enemies, and casting the occasional mana bullet into the fray. Seiren, from what Izuku could tell, didn't seem to do much and was watching the fight very closely for any surprises. It set him at ease knowing that if she trusted Akito and the bear to do most of the work, that they weren't in any danger. Izuku adopted a smile.
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The fight went on for what felt like hours, though he doubted a half hour went by. Akito had apparently ran out of mana awhile back, while her spells were effective, they were mana heavy. Seiren had stepped in to replace her sister, and Izuku only had one word for it, 'Terrifying'. She had opened many small black portals above the enemies that after a few seconds, erupted with tentacles dripping with black ink.
The tentacles had grabbed many of the enemies and pulled them back into the portals. She then opened another portal that seemed to tear itself open and then erupt into fire that cascaded into the enemy. Izuku for his part had let his mana build back up and had cast another volley of Mana Bullets, while Seiren had cast her spells.
It was soon after Seiren joined, that the fight started to dwindle down. Akito was sitting down, where Izuku joined her, "How are you?".
"Tired but good, this used to be so much harder with just mom and us. She had told Seiren and I that we had to do this room on our own. The first clear almost killed us if it wasn't for mom. Now that Seiren is so strong, this room doesn't seem to bad." She rested her head on knees.
"I couldn't imagine having to do that. This room would have been impossible for me."
"Maybe, but eventually you'll be on Seiren's level and possibly even mom's. By then you could clear this room with a snap of your fingers."
As the last enemy was defeated by a bite from the bear, Izuku received a prompt.
[Congratulations!
You have cleared a Dungeon Mini-boss!
Xp gained: 10,000 (-4,000 from having two over leveled allies.) Total Xp earned is 6,000
Level Progress: 8,950/3,775 237.1%
2x Level Up!]
[Congratulations Gamer!
You have gained two levels and reached Level 5!
You have gained the following:
10 Bonus Stat Points
1 Quality Point]
"Wow I reached Level 5 from just that!"
"Congrats! I didn't even get a single level."
Then it hit him, 'If I need to reach level 20 to get my quirk, and an enemy like that didn't level Akito'. Izuku rubbed his temples. "This going to take forever."
"What is?" Akito looks curious.
"Too unlock my quirk."
"Hmm. What do you need to unlock it?"
"I need to hit level 20 and then sacrifice all the Xp."
He saw Akito's eyes widen, and heard a choke come from behind him. "Are you kidding me?!"
Izuku looked, "What?"
"Dude, that's over half a million Xp. Are you seriously going to sacrifice all of it? That would set me back by 2 levels!"
"I don't know!" He stood up and started pacing on the narrow step. "I really want to get my quirk, but seeing how hard it is to gain Xp, I'm not sure it's worth it. It's not like I can just farm Xp indefinitely." Seiren didn't meet his look, neither did Akito. "What?"
No response, "Is there a way to get unlimited Xp?"
Akito looked away and Seiren pretended to be busy with prompts. "Don't do that! Tell me what you know!"
With a heavy sigh, Seiren answered, "There is a way but even our mom was wary of it. Did your mini-map come with a way to get to the Endless Abyss?"
"The spooky dark pit with monsters that sounded like titans?"
"That's the one."
"What about it?"
"As the name applies, it's endless and so are the monsters, while that would be nice and all, the monsters are out of our levels. I'm level 32 right now and I went exploring near the edge when one of the monsters came into view. I used observe and my prompts went a blood red, covered in warnings of not approaching the thing under any circumstances."
"Wait then how do you know it goes on forever?"
"Mom told us, she said she sent out magical scouts when she first found the Abyss and they didn't return. It wasn't until their destruction, by some monsters, that her map got updated. According to her Mini-map they traveled the distance from Earth to Pluto in that time and weren't even close to an end. Also the fact that if you try to enter it, it will give you a prompt calling it the Endless Abyss. The Gamer quirk tends to take literally if you haven't noticed."
"So did your mom ever kill one of the things?"
It was Akito that spoke up, "Once, but it was because she was forced to. She entered a much stronger dungeon, where the enemy had an ability to lower luck into the negatives. Mom said her luck went to the -100s and after she defeated the thing, she received a prompt. Apparently it said that the monster was a relative of a much stronger enemy that is now hunting for you."
Seiren finished the story, "And it was when she entered a dungeon that you couldn't escape without defeating all enemies within it, that it appeared. Mom said most her spells barely had an affect and it came down to her stealing a few buffs from the monster that she was able to take it down. She came home after that, with her health in the red, he stamina nearly depleted, and with the assistance of an upgrade, her Mana was in the negative. She made us vow never to go near there."
"How much Xp did she get from it?"
Seiren shot a glare that could kill, "Are you stupid?!"
Izuku stuck out his hands palm outward, in a placating gesture, "I didn't say I want to do it, I was just curious."
Akito answered, "Mom went up 3 levels, and for her that was a lot. For any of us here, that could easily have been 50 levels."
Izuku's eyes widened, "What level was she?"
Akito shrugged, "I honestly don't remember, from that point onward though, she only ever went up 2 more levels."
"From what I can vaguely remember she had hit Level 120 when she first left on that expedition. So I would guess somewhere around 125 by the time that incident happened?"
Izuku was shocked, "Wow."
He cautiously asked his next question, "If she was so strong how did she not win her last fight?"
Seiren sighed as she sat down, "Like I said Mom only defeated the Abyss Walker because she stole buffs from it. A normal person wouldn't have a plethora of buffs or barely even one. You also have to take into account that heroes and villains constantly fight people of their own strength or greater constantly. For someone like All Might, whose level I couldn't even see, he might have even been stronger than mom. I couldn't even imagine how strong the villain was."
Akito stood up, "Enough sad talk!" She grabbed Izuku's hand and then her sisters pulling them down the stairs, "Let's set up camp, it will let us rest and recharge."
"Good idea, sis."
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Back on Earth
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"What can you tell me of the villain she faced when she was defeated?"
Hideki sighed, "I would tell you if I could, but I have no idea. My wife kept all of her notes and secrets locked away in the Gamer quirk. I don't know if Izuku could gain access to them, as he theoretically, doesn't have the same quirk as my wife. There's also no way of knowing if the data survived the transfer."
All Might coughed, 'Crap' "Excuse me." Another cough.
"You can power down, my wife told me a while back, shortly after you started appearing less and less. She said you got hurt by a villain on her kill list. She tried to get to him before you fought him apparently, but was unable to track him down."
All Might let out a sigh, then let go of One for All. "What was your wife's specialty?"
"Combat. Also spell crafting when she had free time."
"Spell crafting?"
"You didn't know?" At the shake of All Might's head, he continued. "My wife along with Seiren, are spell crafters. Normally for a gamer, you have to learn a spell from a being of immense power, loot drop or another person. My wife on the other hand, was able to create new spells, for anything she wanted. A costly endeavor as the more powerful a spell, not only a greater Mana cost but the actual creation of the spell requires certain objects. One of the spells she tried to create need the beating heart of a child, but my wife refused to pay the cost."
All Might felt sick, "Did all of her spells require such sacrifices?"
"No, in fact one of the spells she was proud of required a clock that had frozen at the time of a great event. Being in Japan, she easily found a watch that had stopped during the Nagasaki or Hiroshima explosions. It cost her a bit of money but no sacrifices. But it turned out the spell was to costly for her even though she created it."
"Sounded like it could have been useful."
"Could have been, but who knows."
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Back to Shadowscape
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"So do I get to learn how you are pulling stuff larger than you pocket out of it?" Izuku was hopeful.
"Pocket Dimension in my pocket. Stick my hand in creating a portal inside it that opens above the item I want and voila it appears."
"That's sounds helpful."
"Yep."
This was awkward, Akito had fallen asleep, and left him alone with Seiren. "So how old is your sister actually?"
Sigh, "Physically six, mentally I don't know. We spent so long with mom exploring different dimensions, it kind of just blurred together. I think it's close to 13 now?"
"How old does that make you?"
"Even to me my age is just question marks, I think it's because of my quirk. I've visited a few dimensions that reversed my age and a few that sped up my age. I can essentially make myself immortal."
"That's amazing!"
Laying her head down on the sleeping bag, "It is and I have my mom to thank for it. Akito got her Absorption Quirk that first gave her my ability and the potential to gain her immortality."
"I'm sorry about your Mom, I didn't know her at all but I can see that she meant a lot to you." He sat down on his own sleeping bag.
"Not your fault, she did what she did because she felt the need too. Having known her for as long as I did, I can tell you one thing. She didn't care about dying, the part that probably affected her more in her final moments was not being able to make us stronger. She cared more for the future and us than she did about what was going on around her." She looked at Izuku, "That includes you, I have no idea why, but she left stuff behind for you. Once we clear this Dungeon and get back to Earth, Dad is going to give you a chest. It contains items that she said will help you."
Izuku's mind was going rapid fire, 'What could be in there?' Ideas of items giving pluses and weapons he could learn to use, filled his mind. When he turned to look at Seiren, the girl had fallen asleep. Taking that as a sign, he drifted off as well.
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[You have met the 8 hours of sleep required and have regained full HP, Mana, and Stamina.
Welcome to a new day!]
Izuku sat up and looked around, Akito had already packed up and Seiren was currently putting her stuff away. "Good Morning? If it is morning."
"Time is frozen here, it's the afternoon still, but Good Morning."
"Izuku! Let's get a move on, we still got 2 floors to go!"
Sitting up and starting to pack, he asked, "Will the next 2 be like this one?"
Akito shook her head, "The next will be a bunch of rooms with stronger enemies than the first floor and the 4th floor before the boss is another mini boss though."
"What's the mini boss on the 4th floor and what's the boss of the dungeon?"
"Mini boss is a Shadow Knight and the Boss is different each time."
Seiren held out her hand for Izuku's sleeping bad, which he handed over, "Let's just hope it isn't the damned spell caster like last time. I don't care what any system thinks, giving a raid boss a time stop and AoE spell is ridiculous."
Izuku started to feel his anxiety build, which was then squashed by Gamer's Mind, "What are the other Bosses?"
Akito started to count on her fingers, "There's the Spider King, Lady of Shade, Horror of Night, Lost Child."
Raising an eyebrow, "Lost Child?"
Seiren answered, "A creepy looking kid, that can disappear from view and will try to slip a knife in your spleen if you aren't careful. Not fun, but not hard, just blanket the area with an AoE and the thing's Invisible Buff is gone from a few seconds."
"Oh, the others?"
Continuing her count, "Duke of Twilight, Shadow Hound Master, Jester of Murder, my personal favorite, and then the Pale Wizard, the OP one."
"Who's the easiest?"
"Uh, depends on your repertoire, but for you, Horror of Night."
"How so?"
"It's main attack is a super nasty debuff that causes hallucinations and lowers your stats. Since it's all part of the same status, Gamer's Mind would block all of it."
"Huh, cool."
As they talked, they had walked toward the end of the dance hall, to the closed door on the other end. Seiren had with a single hand pushed a door 5 times bigger than All Might in his Muscle form with no problem.
"What is your Str stat?"
Seiren had looked over her shoulder and giggled, "Why Izuku, asking a woman her Str, how daring!"
Izuku could feel his cheeks go red, he started to stutter, "I didn't - I - I didn't mean it like that!"
Akito and Seiren both laughed joyously, he could tell he was played instantly. Feeling the heat go to his neck, "Ha Ha very funny."
Akito wiping a tear away, "Sorry Izuku." Turning to her sister, "I'll be honest, I didn't think you ever get a chance to use that joke."
"Hook line, sinker!" Seiren held one arm up and pumped down. Looking at Izuku, " I've been planning that joke since I was little."
Izuku smiled, it was nice seeing them happy and joking. "Glad I could be the butt of the joke."
Giving him a thumbs up, "Appreciated, now, just like the first floor Izuku is going to clear it alone and preferably quickly."
Izuku nodded and proceeded forward. The door led to an 'outside', which was more of a giant enclosed garden maze. He could see the walls on the far edge of the garden, the whole thing was illuminated by glowing crystal embedded in the ceiling. They gave off an unnatural blue glow, which just made the garden feel creepier than it already was.
The garden itself was littered with black flowers and white mushrooms. He had no idea what any of the plants and fungi were, but general instinct told him that they were poisonous. The maze portion was shrouded by overgrown shrubs and trees. "Don't tell me, I have to go into the creepy maze?" He asked rhetorically.
"Yup."
Sigh. "Fine, any hints of what's in there?"
"Plants."
He gave Akito an annoyed look, "Thanks."
"No prob."
"She's serious."
He looked over at Seiren, "What?"
"The monsters in there are plants. You'd best not trust any vines or flowers."
Izuku gulped, 'Great. More terrifying things to occupy my nightmares.' "Okay let's do this."
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It was the third bend into the maze that Izuku spotted the first monster.
[Belladonna Vine Crawler
Level: 6
Health: 1000/1000
Mana: 0/0
Stamina: 1150/1150
Str: 220
Con: 150
Dex: 75
Agi: 30
Int: 20
Wis: 5
Cha: 0
Res: 100
Traits: Plant - Immune to all psychological effects and takes double damage from fire and ice.
Poisonous/Venomous - This creature is both laced with toxins and covered in it.
Beware Gamer, this creature is an unholy combination of a Writhing Mass and a Belladonna Flower.]
"I don't think I can take that on."
Seiren look at him in confusion for a second before she looked back at the creature, then her eyes widened. "That's new."
Akito, having used Observe also, "Sei, what's a Withering Mass?"
"It's a creature I fought a couple months back. Not entirely difficult but one of its powers is the ability to split itself. I've never seen one outside the Dackul dimension before."
"Do you think the dungeon is adapting?", Izuku could hear the fear in her voice.
"What's that mean?"
Seiren looked at him, "Sometimes when you clear a dungeon multiple times, it will shift itself to bring in new monsters and new challenges. The thing is though is that is the first one mom ever found, and we've been coming here since we were little."
"Should we go back?"
Seiren studied the monster for a second before she answered, "No, I want to see if the boss changed. Izuku hit it with a mana bullet and I'll kill it."
Summoning a single Mana Bullet, he hit it square in the, vines? Seiren summoned one of the fire portals from the last fight and the mass barely had any time to react as it was scorched to nothing. He received some Xp from the fight but nowhere close enough to level up.
"Let's skip this floor and get to the fourth. We'll deal with the Shadow Knight, and take on the boss. Akito cast the buff on Izuku and me, I'll do the same to you. We can't trust the Shadow Knight will be the same."
After a brief exchange of magic, they made their way to the next floor, which was just a massive cathedral on the other side of the garden.
The windows and stained glass of building, seemed to absorb the light of the crystals and and radiated a dark aura. Just like the dance hall, the door was massive and made of the same black wood. The stone was similar as well, though unlike the dance hall, it was arranged in patterns that seemed to tell a story.
Seiren, who was leading the way, put her hand up to the door, "Izuku stay behind Akito, take potshots when you can but don't get to close."
Izuku nodded and the door was opened. The room on the other side was breathtaking, in an eerie sort of way. Pews were strewn about, lit candles giving off a warm feeling adorned the walls, and the stained glass, shone with an unholy glow. While Izuku wasn't into the whole goth thing, he still could appreciate the elegant beauty of the room.
Walking in and stopping ten meters in front of a statue, Seiren spoke to Izuku, "Hit the statue and we'll start the fight."
"Why don't you summon something?"
Akito answered, "Shadow Knight has the ability to unsummon and forces a fight."
"So you just gonna punch it?"
Seiren smirked, "[Bone Blade]." A white rod appeared in her hand and quickly grew into roughly shaped sword. Izuku used observe.
[Level 32 Bone Sword
Made by Seiren Hale
Adds 32% of your Str to your Blade Combat skill.
If the durability of this weapon reaches 0, it will explode dealing damage equal to your Str in an area effect around you. This can damage you!
Durability: 50/50]
"Can you teach me that?"
Seiren maintaining her smirk, held out her hand. With a grasp he was greeted with a prompt.
[New Spell Learned! Bone Blade Lvl: 1 Xp: 0.0%
Reduce your HP by 5% to summon this blade into your hand. The blade adds 1% of your total Str to your Blade Combat skill.
This is a spell of Necromancy.]
Stuttering, "Necromancy?!"
"Don't be a prude, necromancy is only evil if you use it for evil. Use everything at your disposal in a fight for your life, damn the consequences."
Steeling his resolve, he nodded, "[Bone Blade]" He felt like someone had taken a knife to his spine and just as sudden as it happened, the pain disappeared. "Ow."
"Meh, it only happens the first time, or whenever your blade breaks. What you felt was the bone growing alongside your spine."
Izuku felt his back and did indeed feel a bone there. Giving it an experimental poke, it was squishy, not fighting against his pressure. He stretch his back and didn't feel any resistance or tightness. 'Huh. Would have thought that would have made it feel weird.' "[Bone Blade]" Just as it had with Seiren a white rod appeared in his hand, and a blade materialized.
"I'm not teach your sword combat, just take a couple of swings at me and gain the skill."
After a few strikes he gained it.
[New Skill Created! Blade Combat Lvl: 1 Xp: 0.0%
From the sly dagger to the mighty claymore, swords come in all shapes and sizes.
Any bladed weapon deals 60% of your total Str.]
Aiming his free hand at the statue he shot a Mana Bullet at the statue. A brief pause passed and the statue lost its gray rocky coloring and started oozing darkness from behind the pieces of stone that turned into metal.
As soon as it stood straight up Izuku used [Observe].
[Anti-Mage Shadow Knight
Level: 18
Health: 1600 / 1600
Mana: 1,075 / 1,075
Stamina: 1,800 / 1,800
Str: 175
Con: 160
Dex: 140
Agi: 80
Int: 35
Wis: 90
Cha: 15
Res: 200
Luck: 10
A Knight is a person of honor and chivalry. A Shadow Knight is an evil of treachery and deceit. Destroy this being as it will provide you with no quarter.]
"Wow that's strong."
"Not strong enough" Seiren shot toward the Knight and pulling her blade back. When she was in striking distance she swung out with one hand and with her left, she shot out a ball of lightning.
The lightning, being both aimed and attracted to the metal of the armor, hit quick and hard. The result was an explosion that created a dust cloud, Izuku could hear something thwack against the knight. The next thing he saw was Seiren come flying out and crashing into a couple of pews before stopping.
Akito shot out a few spells from her dagger. One of which didn't provide any light effect, the other created a vacuum that sucked in all the dust and then imploded on itself. The Knight took it in stride and started running toward Akito, who was the closer target, and raised its sword. Akito, seemingly unperturbed, raised her unarmed hand and created a wall of stone between them.
The Knight seeing the wall lowered its sword and bull rushed it, trying to break through. It made it through the wall with the charge but was then hit back through by Seiren in a double bladed vengeance. The girl had somehow created a second bone blade and stabbed both up into the helmet.
Izuku trying to be useful, summoned a volley of Mana Bullets, and shot them toward the slightly pinned Knight. Most of the shots hit, but didn't seem to do much. Seiren kicked the Knight away from her and jumped a little back. The sword in her left hand started flickering and then faded from existence. Akito as soon as her sister was away had let loose another non visual spell then looking directly at the Knight let out a wail so loud that Izuku had to clap his hands over his ears. He saw the armor the knight wore start to crack, but as he was looking at its health, two buffs appeared.
[Death to Magic-
Magic is now 90% less effective against this being and is no longer able to be affected by statuses.]
[Stone Armor (Broken)-
This being's armor made it slow and encumbered. It has now broken this armor and it's stats now reflect this.]
As soon as the buffs appear Akito stopped her wail and Seiren charged back in with her single sword. Izuku decided to check which stats were changed as he didn't have much do during the fight.
[Anti-Mage Shadow Knight
Health: 785 / 1,600
Mana: 1,075 / 1,075
Stamina: 875 / 1,550
Dex- 200
Agi- 160
Res- 150]
Izuku watched the stats in action. Every sword strike Seiren sent its way was dodged or parried. When Seiren finished her combo, the tides shifted, Seiren had to bring her sword up to block a swing that not only shattered her Bone Blade, but sent her flying back out into the pews. With the blade breaking shrapnel went everywhere not only into the Knights face and chinks of its armor but into Seiren as well.
Akito still using spells, slammed her hand against the ground. After the briefest of seconds bones started to rapid stroke from the ground and pierced the Knight pinning it in place. Izuku shot out another Mana Bullet, feeling like an ant in a battle of giants, and watched as Seiren got back up and summoned another Bone Blade. She winced as it appeared, and a second one flickered in and out of her left, until staying solid. After it finished materializing, she charged the Knight again and once again stabbed both swords into the Knight helmet.
The Knight grabbed Seiren with its one freehand and crushed. Seiren in turn, did something to her normal Bone Blade and shoved it down into the chest cavity. The Knight still gripping Seiren, exploded with bits of bone and metal spewing from any open crevice. The Knight refusing to die, seemed to flex, and the bone holding it in place shattered. Akito threw a ball of white energy at her sister that hit true and bathed Seiren in its aura. As he couldn't even see her level, he just assumed it was a healing spell.
The Knight not waiting for the spell to finalize slammed his captive on to ground. Izuku could hear bones snapping, but thanks to Gamer's Body she kept fighting back. As she was getting lifted up she formed a spear made of stone and jabbed it into the elbow of Knight, with a twist she severed the arm in two. She was dropped to the ground and kicked as hard as she could pushing herself away from the Knight.
The spell slowly started to mend her crushed wrist and Izuku watched slightly queasy, as the wrist started to set itself. Akito went on the offensive and started casting spells, like a bat outta hell. The spell was Mana Bullet, but a variant of it, it was like a Gatling gun firing Mana Bullets from a single point. While the spell wasn't dealing a lot of damage, it was pushing the Knight back, literally shoving the thing back feet at a time.
It was when Izuku was in awe that Seiren threw something to him, catching it, he saw it was a blue potion. He used [Observe] on it.
[Elixir of Unlimited Mana
This elixir once drunk, will grant unlimited Mana for 2 minutes.
There is no way to extend (or reduce) this duration.]
His eyes went wide. Seiren nodded and as her wrist was fixed, summoned another Bone Blade. Seeing that she was serious, he drank the potion down. Casting a Mana Bullet was like opening the tap a tiny bit, after the potion he could feel his mana shaking his pipes trying to burst free. Not able to hold back much more, he started trying to copy Akito. Casting a Mana Bullet, then trying to quickly cast another he was greeted with a prompt.
[New Sub-Spell created!
Mana Gatling Lvl: Max
Draining your Mana over time, you are now able to summon more Mana bullet in the fraction of the time. Cuts cast time of Mana Bullet to .1 seconds. Be wary as this can drain your Mana to 0 if you are not careful.]
Grinning, he joined Akito. The Knight under fire from two sources was pushed back further until it the wall were it was pinned. Seiren had cast some type of spell that looked like Bone Blade, but instead was small daggers. They hung around her midair and as she plucked one out another replaced it. Tossing them around or on the Knight she started peppering the thing.
Akito was the first to stop her barrage, having used an elixir earlier, then Izuku. It was when they stopped did the Knight stand straight again, and that Seiren's plan bore fruit. With a snap of her fingers, the more than 30 bone daggers, blew up and caused an explosion that rattled Izuku and caused, a shakily standing, Akito to her knees.
The Knight stood there after the dust cleared and then slumped forward on its face, fading into nothingness.
[Congratulations!
You have defeated a dungeon Mini-Boss!
XP gained: 40,000 (5,000 reduced from having a higher level ally help.)
Level Progress: 49,250/7,081 695.52%
Level up x4]
[Congratulations Gamer!
You have gained four levels and reached Level 9!
You have gained the following:
20 Bonus Stat Points]
Izuku felt ecstatic, until he looked at Akito who was holding her head like it was splitting. Seiren had pulled out their sleeping bags, laying one down next to her sister, she cast [Sleep] on Akito. The young girl had slumped over onto the sleeping bag, and slept like the dead. She laid another down for herself and tossed the last to Izuku.
"Before you go to sleep look behind the podium and finish the side quest. There's no monsters during it, just puzzles, go to sleep after or don't. I don't really care, Good night." She laid down and was out like her sister.
"Wow, they must have been super low." Taking her advice, he walked over to the podium and found a switch on the floor beneath it. Pulling it, he heard something click and creak, turning he saw a part of the wall had opened up into a dark staircase.
Feeling optimistic, he made his way down into the dark.
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Chapter 3 Done!
Woot! Fight win! Levels gained! Enemies vanquished! Decided to do something fun for the relationship of this fanfic. Decided on this relationship because it would be fun to write and I've never seen it before (from what I've personally read). It is a threesome and I'm going to do my absolute best to make it believable.
If you want to know what it is going to be then go down to the very bottom after the reviews.
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Reviews!
Jack- Long review is long. I won't reveal anything about Kat or her story as that's part of the plot. Have fun theorizing.
NyaNyaKittyFace - Who said she died pointlessly? Also I agree pointless deaths are annoying.
RaudomGny - Izuku was thinking short term, even if he got the Gamer's Mind Upgrade, he couldn't really do much with it right now. Maybe get a few crits in but that wouldn't help him much. Also thank you for the compliment :)
Winter Kitsu - That is correct, there will not be massive bonuses every 100 because I feel like that makes the characters to powerful. Though Izuku did gain a quality for reaching 100 Res.
Yojimbra - I apologize, I really don't want to use characters that we know absolutely nothing about personality wise as an important character. I hope you like the relationship I did choose though. Also what sword?
- Thank you! I personally love making OCs but hate having to use them in stories, but when you make a story that takes place before cannon, characters that the MC doesn't know yet can't really be thrown in without good reasoning. I'll look into a discord server, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I do not ship Momo/Izuku in anyway. I agree with the bs about romance, just because guy A is caring not every girl will like him like that, the world has over a billion people in it. There are bound to be more than a handful of caring people.
Lightgiver- I would ask to explain what confused you, but I'm honestly a little scared :P Thank you for the compliment though!
Kroe100 - Thank you! I tried really hard to make something original.