Chapter 4
Warning! I am not against describing scenes of great violence or death. This is a warning for future chapters and parts of this chapter. There is a reason this is rated M. I'm sorry if your not okay with this.
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So before we begin, I'd like to list a few things I'm going to do once this goes up:
Reread my own story and look for typos.
Make sure all stats are correct
Fill in missing information on Knight
Write in the Quality Izuku got for reaching 100 Res. (The Quality will be listed below so you don't have to go back.)
Sorry for the f ups!
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Chapter 4 - Regeneration
While stats are the lifeblood of a Gamer. HP, Mana, and Stamina are your limits. HP is regenerated at a rate of .5 per minute for every 10 Con. Mana is regenerated at a rate of 1 per minute. For every 10 Int you attain, you gain an additional .75 per minute and for every 10 Wis you gain .25 per minute. Stamina is regenerated at the rate of .75 per minute for every 10 Res. These rates can also be increased by certain upgrades.
(Scrawled on the page)
Don't feel pressured to gain upgrades that increase regen. They are only worth it if you plan on using that stat in the first place.
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[Bonus Level completed!
You have completed a bonus objective located in the Ruins of the Shadow People.
For completing this objective you gain the following:
Choose one (Additional Xp, a random item, or a small stat increase)
4,000 Xp
A golden key
Note: These rewards can not be claimed again.]
Izuku hummed, 'So either another level up, an item that could possibly be useful, or stat increases when I have low stats.'
Stat increases were out, so it's a tie between the item and Xp. The level would take him to 10 but he really wanted to know what the item is. Maybe he should just ask Akito, and Seiren.
Emerging from the dark hallway, he saw Seiren sitting down on a pew looking at her sister. She looked over at Izuku as he emerged, "Hey, how'd it go?"
Izuku smiled, "Good, I'm having an issue with choosing the reward though. I can't decide between reaching Level 10 or an item."
Stretching, "Level 10, the item is based on your level and the pool you have access to right now is too small to make it worth it."
Izuku nodded and selected the additional Xp.
[+3,000 Xp
Level up!]
[Congratulations Gamer!
You have gained a level and reached level 10!
You have gained the following:
5 Bonus Stat Points
1 Perk Point]
Izuku cheered, "I got a new perk point!"
Seiren smiled, "What you gonna take?"
Izuku looked over his perk choices again.
(New perks will be below ending comment.)
"Spell crafting?"
"Probably not worth it till you can gain access to components, anything else interesting?"
"I'm not taking Blood casting, I can get some type of sneaking, but that doesn't seem like me." Seiren nodded, "I can gain short range teleportation?"
She shrugged, "Helpful but not anything ground breaking since you can't back it up with anything big."
"Void Walk?"
Seiren shook her head, "Same reasoning behind teleporting."
"What's Perfect Mimic?"
Raising an eyebrow, "How am I supposed to know? Does it give you a tooltip of some sort?"
"Not from what I can tell."
"Next!"
"Focal point doesn't seem to be helpful, I think you'll say that Bullet Time won't be immediately helpful, Knight's Vow?"
"Never heard of it, I don't think mom had that either, anything else?"
"Uh something called Words of Millions?"
Seiren nodded, "You got that from All Might, mom says it allows you to cause a buff to affect all allies in a 100 meter radius with that buff. Very helpful if you need it, but you don't have any types of buffs."
"So what should I take?"
Adopting a thoughtful expression, "I honestly don't know, most aren't helpful to you right now. So take what you want or hold off?"
Izuku agreed, "I'll hold off. Any recommendations for Qualities?"
"Mmmmm. Not really, you haven't quite figured out a fighting style yet, mom was a Spell Eater, class wise."
"I saw that in the quirk upgrades, what's a class anyway?"
Seiren scooted over and patted the seat next to her, Izuku took the offered seat. "When you reach level 30, you'll be able to pick a class, the classes available, are decided by your fighting style. Mom focusing more on her born quirk, used enemy quirks against them most of the time, along with magic when she was here. This gave her the option to select Spell Eater. A class is super special, you can never change it and future upgrades are decided by it. Mom's class developed her Absorption quirk further and enhanced her spell working."
"Did you get one?"
A nod, "Yeah, no one else in the world is allowed to pick a class besides the true Gamer. Mine is called Rift Queen, it helps with summoning spells and teleportation. Most people gain classes based on their quirk and what they do in their everyday life. If you can't see their quirk take a look at their class, it may allow you to piece it together."
Izuku nodded, "Thanks for the tip."
She yawned, "No problem."
Looking over at Akito, "So what happened to her yesterday?"
"Her Mana went into the negative, she used Mana Gatling longer than the elixir allowed for. She's a heavy spell caster that focuses on large spells, the gamer rewarded her with the quality, Lost Chapter. It allows her to go negative in mana at the cost of stamina. What you saw was the consequences of that, if your mana goes negative it causes your mind to feel like it's tearing itself in two."
"Note taken, when is she supposed to wake up?"
"Whenever I choose."
"Why don't you wake her up?"
She shrugged, "Really don't want to go into the next room?"
"I'd like to get back to the real world?"
She let out a long sigh and threw her head back, "Fine." Getting up she walked over to her sister and canceled the spell.
Akito slowly woke up and noticed both of the older kids looking at her, "How long have I been out?"
"10 hours."
'Did I really just spend 10 hours doing puzzles?'
"Oh." She got up and started to pack stuff up. "We heading toward the boss now?"
Seiren nodded and took the sleeping bag, "Let's hope it's something easy, because the Knight took two of our elixirs."
She yawned, "Not unusual, but definitely not good."
"Is there a way to know what boss it is?", asked Izuku.
Seiren shook her head, "No, you have to go into the room, and once you're in there, you're trapped there until you defeat the boss. We'll be using mom's buff, my summons, and Akito will be using buffing spells instead of combat spells. This means I'll be doing most of the fighting. Got it?" Izuku and Akito nodded their heads.
"Then let's get the buffs on."
The girls spent the next two minutes putting the buffs they would need on each other. They gave Izuku the protection buff and a buff to his mana pool.
[You have gained the following buffs: Matriarchal Protection, Widen Pool]
Izuku felt secure, walking up to the door to the next room. Seiren had pushed the door open which opened to a narrow staircase that wound its way down in the depths of the dungeon.
They had spent the last 10 minutes descending, and finally reach the bottom, which widened out into medium sized entry way. The door on the other side was made of metal and embedded with jewels. They were designed into the shapes of a skull.
"Subtle", jokes Izuku.
He got a smile from Akito, but a grunt from Seiren. 'I guess I should be serious.'
Seiren walked up to the door and touched it, she froze in place and disappeared. Izuku almost freaked out before a box appeared in his vision.
[Do you wish to enter the Boss Chamber?
Doing so will prevent you from leaving until the boss is dead. There is no escape from this dungeon until it is done.
Do you wish to proceed?]
Izuku took a deep breath and selected yes. After the box disappeared, and a brief pause later Izuku was teleported into cave like he'd never seen before.
The cave was easily 2 km across and a km tall. The base was mostly flat, with giant crystals stick up every so often. The ceiling itself held hundreds of crystal which radiated light, illuminating the cave like it was day. On the far end, a massive dais rose from the ground being made of an out of place white stone and crystal, which also radiated light. On the dais there was two things the first, was a statue of someone or thing that he'd never seen before and the second was a person dressed in black leather armor kneeling in front of the statue.
"What boss is that?"
"Izuku, I'm sorry."
"For what?" He gave Seiren a questioning look.
Akito spoke up, "Zuku we're in a lot of trouble now, we need you to stay out of the way." There was a look of hard determination, which didn't seem to suit the girl.
Izuku took his place behind Akito with a frown, 'What in the world is going on?' He decided to use Observe on the boss.
[Name: Lost Crusader
Age: 42
Level: ?
Note: You have encountered an individual who's level and stats far surpass your own. level up to reveal more information about them.]
"That's not one of the bosses you said were in here, also what level is he?"
Seiren answered him, "The dungeon mutated, new bosses are here now, there's no way of knowing what they can do. As for level, he's level 47. He's on par with a pro hero, but the real problem is his stats. His lowest stat is his Int, which is 100, the next closest is Wis at 150, his Agi and Dex are both at 225, Res and Con are 300 and Str is at 400." She was shaking slightly.
Akito noticing the shake,"That's not real problem is it Sis?"
Seiren shook her head slightly, "No."
"Out with it then, What's so bad about him?"
"His warning paragraph is, All users of magic beware, the crusade has been set on you, flee all you wish but none shall escape the wrath of a crusader. I think he's a much stronger version of the Knight. If he is, then we're in deep shit." She started using a summoning spell.
Izuku watched in fascinating, as tens of portals started opening and out walked all manner of creatures, he could see a few of the celestial bear from yesterday, a couple of demon looking dogs, a few cats with sparks arcing off of them, and the one that made up most of the army, a Knight dressed in golden armor streaked with black.
The crusader sensing the magic got up off his knees and turned toward the small army. Izuku felt his stomach drop, every step the crusader took shook the ground. Fear started to over take him, and was then squashed by Gamer's Mind.
"I'm so jealous of you Izuku." It was Akito.
"Why?"
"I'm super scared right now. Gamer's Mind would be nice right now." He could see her shaking pretty badly.
It was Seiren who answered her sister, "Keep to the plan, not even the Knight could get rid of buffs. I'll just have to fight it in melee like yesterday." Akito nodded.
The crusader had just stepped onto the cave floor, pulled out a mace the size of a small boulder and charged.
"Scatter and surround!", called out Seiren. Her army jumped out of the way of the crusader and tried to attack its back. It didn't work, the crusader slammed his mace down in front of him, allowing the weight to stop his momentum. He turned around using a spell, summoning a golden blade, cut through the summons behind him. Nine of the creatures were taken out.
"I'll be using Crystal, summoning an actual weapon and facing it in combat. Akito keep all buffs trained on me. Izuku hit it once at least and keep safe. Got it?"
They both nodded.
"[Summoning Crystal of Vanran]" A portal opened and a small creature holding a lamp walked over to Seiren and bowed, "[Summon Limbo Knight]" the lamp seemed to glow with a grayish light which opened a portal and kept the portal open. She then used another spell, "[Weapon of the Profane]". A small portal opened and reaching in she pulled out a black sword that seemed to drink in light.
"Sis Cast your buffs and I'll go."
Akito still shaking cast her buffs on her sister. As soon as the last buff appeared, Seiren disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Izuku looked over toward the Crusader and saw something slam into it. The Crusader took it in stride, barely budging an inch and swung its mace at the new challenger. The mace let out a small shock wave that slammed into Seiren, who was forced to block with both hands. To break free of the stalemate, she teleported behind the crusader's back and struck at the nape of his neck.
The sword connected, denting the armor but not dealing significant damage. The crusader swung its mace around with speed it shouldn't have been capable of, and slammed hard into Seiren, who while managing to block the strike, was sent careening away.
He saw a spell fly off of Akito, and land behind her sister. The spell caused Seiren to decelerate rapidly and allowing her to land safely. Another spell went off bathing Seiren in a purple light, and she disappeared again, slamming into the side of the Crusader. The force once again only budging it an inch.
The crusader swung his mace in a wide arc probably expecting her teleport like she had last time. However, she had teleported a few of the summons in front of him and replaced herself with one of the Limbo Knights. The crusader cleanly cut through the weak opposition and forced the bears back. Izuku could see the crusader's free hand going through a few motions. He called out to Seiren, "He's casting!"
Akito responded with letting off two spells. One bathed her sister in the purple light the other, hit the crusader and seemed to make him move slower. It worked for a brief moment before a crashing sound reverberated through the cave, the crusader had broken the spell. It then barely managed to finish off its own spell, before Seiren slammed into it.
The spell caused a massive golden shock wave to go off and many of the summons were thrown into golden portals, the bears being the only thing left standing. Even the Crystal she summoned at the start had been thrown into a portal. Seiren seemed unaffected and tried teleporting behind it again striking her blade straight down into exposed neckline. The weapon she was using started to pierce but was then shattered as the crusader was bathed in light. She teleported away toward them.
"I'm barely dealing any damage to it, my physical stats aren't high enough to deal with this thing. The spell it just threw down also is desummoning anything that isn't from a Celestial realm, and I only have 2 celestial summons. One is the bear and the other is a dog, not very useful. I'll summon a few more bears but they get cut down instantly." They watched as the crusader crushed a bear into a pulp.
"I'm also getting low on stamina, each of those slams take a decent chunk. I can't think of anything I can do to deal damage."
Izuku tried to think of a solution, but nothing came to mind. It was Akito who thought of something. "Could we try dropping one of the big crystals on it?" She pointed toward one of the crystals that was already leaning toward one side.
Seiren looked and nodded, "That would work, no way of knowing how much damage it would deal, but worth a try. Izuku?"
Izuku looked at her, "Yeah?"
"I'm going to give you a bunch of the daggers from yesterday, and I need you to stab them into the base of the crystal, Akito weaken it as much as you can. I'll distract it."
She held out her hand and cast a spell, "[Bone Dagger Arsenal]". About 15 daggers dropped to the ground into a neat pile. She then opened a portal below them and teleported them to the crystal. She then resummoned the black blade from earlier and rushed back into combat, summoning more bears.
Izuku ran as fast as he could toward the crystal and jumped a little when a spell went flying right by him, taking a chunk of the crystal with it. He made it to small pile of daggers, picked one up and with all the strength he could muster stabbed it into the crystal. The crystal had a decent resistance but the dagger was so sharp and had such a good bonus that it slid in fairly easily. Another spell slammed into the other side of the crystal making the gouge pretty significant. Izuku kept doing his job and looked over toward the crusader, who had just sent one of the bears flying into the nearby wall. It hit with a crunch and then dissipated. 'Wow that thing is strong.'
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Seiren was currently hiding behind one of the celestial bears, and trying to strengthen her weapon. The actual body of this damn thing was protected by some type of buff called, [Celestial Right]. She wasn't sure exactly what the buff did but she did know that it made weapons not of the celestial type, explode. So that was what she was doing right now.
[Gamer you are now attempting to create a new spell!
Spell to be Created: Weapon of the Righteous
Materials Required: Connection to the Celestial Realm, Minimum level of 10 in Light Magic, and the heart of a Demon of level 10 or higher.]
She sighed, 'I was really hoping to keep the heart for a different spell. But I'd rather live than die here.' She reached into her pocket dimension, summoning bears the entire time and pulled out a deep red heart, that still pulsed. Selecting yes on the prompt, she watched as the heart started to dissolve.
[New Spell Created! Weapon of the Righteous Lvl: 1 Xp: 0.00%
Summon a weapon of Celestial Might. This weapon deals 10% of your normal damage as Celestial.
Cost: 300 Mana]
'Better than nothing.' She used her new spell. A portal of blue and gold opened up, and reaching in she felt the hilt of the sword. Pulling it out, she was greeted with a golden blade the exact same size as her normal profane weapon.
Talking to herself, "Let's do this."
She jumped out from behind the bear and immediately felt the spell from her sister hit her, [You have gained the following Buff: Hermes' Blessing]. She always liked this spell, it made her feel like she could fly. Her and mom had never worked out how a flying spell would work.
Running straight at the back of the crusader she used [Giga Impact] at what was nearly Mach 1 right into its side, driving the blade as hard she could into it.
[Spell Level up! Weapon of the Righteous Lvl: 3 Xp: 21.78%
Damage: 10% - 12%
Mana: 300 - 320]
The damn thing is too fast for its size. In the armor it easily weighed over 400 Kg. How it swung around a mace that weighed as much as it was a testament to its Str. It swung the mace aiming for her center of mass and hit air, as she used [Fade Shifting] to appear behind it and was immediately attacked by the mace which she had to block. Her blade, while not stopping the mace, was able to deflect it breaking in the process. This gave her the chance to jump back and resummoning the new level of blade. As soon as it was done summoning she peaked at her HP, Mana, and Stamina.
[Seiren Hale
Class: Rift Queen
Title: Mistress of Dimensions
Level: 32 53.78%
Age: ?
Quirk: Gamer Lite (Born), Dimension Traveler (Granted)
Health: 1,634/ 2,270
Mana: 4,610 / 5,830
Stamina: 1,243 / 2,545
Str: 245
Con: 227
Dex: 189
Agi: 197
Int: 324
Wis: 421
Cha: 134
Res: 282
Luck: 8
Perk: Spell Casting
Spell Crafting
Spell Searing
Qualities: Sage of Heroes Lvl: 20 (Maxed)
Points: 31]
'Ok I'm half way out of stamina, Hp has a dent and mana is nearly full.' She let out a small breath and charged at the crusader aiming for its legs, hoping she could take at least one out to slow it down. As she ran she was once again hit with the buff and used [Giga Impact] again.
What she wasn't expecting was for it to be casting again, and canceling out her buff.
[You have lost all positive buffs from the spell: Anti-Magic Field]
'Fuck'. Was all that went through her head as she ran straight at it, losing most of her momentum. She was forced to teleport behind it again, and expecting the mace held her blade up prepared to parry. Unfortunately for her, the damn thing was expecting it and used another spell on her. She was hit and thrown back by a red light.
She took a quick look at her HP as she was sent flying.
[Hp: 1,334 / 2,270]
'Ow'. While she could feel the spell or the repercussions, she could tell how bad it was from judging her HP. She thankfully felt the spell from Akito slow her and landed on her feet. 'Can't take too many of those. I need to figure out a different tactic.'
She sent the remaining bears at it, and looked over at Izuku who was planting the last of the daggers. 'Let's see if this works.'
She waited for Izuku to plant the once and signaled him away, he complied and ran back toward Akito. Who was preparing for the next round of buffs. Once it hit her she started running toward the crusader and instead of attacking, preparing her quirk, "Crash Ring".
Normally she couldn't force an enemy to go through a portal as they are intent based. This move, created by her mother, made it that if her Wis was higher than the enemy Res she could. Luckily for her that was the case. The only issue with it was that it cost a lot of Mana, and the fact that the portal dumped everything in a nice tiny pile right in the middle of it. Meaning that she would be right on top of it after doing this and she had to be fast to get away.
She managed to get close enough that the crusader was in the ring but so were four bears. 'This is going to hurt.' She opened the portal, causing all six of them to be dumped right under the crystal's path. She was caught in a sea of golden blue fur and couldn't figure out up from down. Trying to crawl her way out she felt something cold touch her leg, and then it squeezed. For once Gamer's Body couldn't take away all the pain and as she tried crawling away, she felt a cry coming from her throat. Looking at her HP she felt sick to her stomach.
[HP: 654 / 2,270]
'This needs to end now.' Trusting her mom's buff she reached out for the bone daggers and activated the spell. She heard the loud boom of the spell going off and then the loud thud of the crystal shifting. She heard her sister callout her name. Then everything went dark.
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Izuku watched in horror as the crystal was sent toppling over onto the mass of fur and armor, 'Why would she do that?'. He watched as Akito started casting a multitude of spells and before any of them could land, the crystal landed with an earth shaking boom.
Everything went silent for a minute as the dust cloud formed, and without warning an explosion occurred throwing shards of crystals, and the Crusader in all manner of directions. The only thing left standing, or prone, at this point was Seiren who was just barely conscious. Akito cast a spell on herself and was there in an instant. He tried to follow as best as he could.
"Sis are you ok?"
"Yeah sleep would be good right now. I can't exactly walk." She reaches out for her leg, which was missing. Izuku felt like throwing up.
"What happened?"
"Damn thing grabbed my leg and squeezed it off."
As they talked a thump was heard from the directions the crusader was sent flying. Izuku turned to see it standing and having dropped the now broken mace.
"Fuck! Akito cast the regen spell on me."
Izuku asked with slight fear, "What's its HP at?"
"In the thousands."
"How?" He was starting to freak out. Then it was quelled and replaced with out of place calmness.
Akito cast the spell on her sister, who whispered into her sister's ear. Seiren nodded and reached into her pocket and pulled out an elixir from yesterday. "What are you planning?"
Akito gave a super out of place smile and suddenly turned very dark. As in she was literally changing into shadows and her hair was turning a pitch smoky black. She started to get hard to see and before Izuku could ask anything else, she disappeared. Izuku looked at Seiren, who could only mutter, "Get us out of here before we get caught in the crossfire."
Izuku nodded and picked up Seiren who very light, and carried her toward a couple of boulders where they could watch what will happen. "What was that?"
Seiren glancing over her shoulder toward the crusader who was walking toward where they last were. "Akito is a spell caster through and through, she never put anything into Str, Dex, Agi, or Cha. She's just naturally cute. What you saw was her absorbing the darkness of the Shadowscape and becoming one with it. Kind of like the perk you can get. The only difference is, is that she can back up the power up. What you are going to see is a spell caster going all out against a being that is meant to hunt and destroy magic."
Izuku's eyes widened, "Will she be okay?"
"I honestly don't know. She just has to hold the thing off long enough for my leg to grow back."
Izuku nodded, and asked a question that had been bothering him. "So why didn't she just do the spell that restores Hp and Stamina on you like she did for me two days ago?"
"[Medic's Respite] Can only be used when outside of combat. Healing spells are fickle and don't work during combat. Mom had one that could but it caused the person being healed to lose a massive amount of Xp in the process."
They had made it to the boulders and setting her down, they watched Akito work.
As the Crusader made it to the last known location of Akito, no doubt sensing the magic. It was blasted back and sent flying by a bolt of thunder that not only lit the whole cavern up, but shook everything, causing little bits of crystal to come falling out of the ceiling. "[Mana Storm]". 'Looks like she's going to provide commentary.'
As it crashed into the wall, again, it was assaulted by loud sound that seemed to chill the air. Then without warning, a bomb went off, freezing everything in an area in a thick layer of frost. "[Cold Snap] though much stronger than what I remember."
The crusader seemingly unaffected, busted out of the ice and starting casting. A second later a sphere appeared around it, giving off a faint blue hue. "Probably some version of [Mana Shield]."
It didn't seem to make Akito falter as she bathed the area in a ball of magma. "[Magma Bomb]". The magma seemed to cool down rapidly and hardened around the enemy freezing in place. Izuku felt a low rumble come from the new rock and the crusader seemed to be carving his way out of it.
Before it could get out of the hole, a spear as wide as Izuku formed mid air and was sent hurtling toward the Crusader. It smashed against the shield and sent it flying back into the hole. "[Frost Giant's Spear]". Not letting up she then cast another spell that seemed to fill the air with electricity. "Cover your ears if you don't want to go deaf for a while." He did so and watched as the Crusader climb back out of the hole and was immediately assaulted by hundreds of lightning strikes that gave off an ear piercing wail.
As soon as Seiren did so, he uncovered his ears. "[Odin's Rage] I wonder how much Mana she has left." He looked at Seiren's leg which was currently growing the bone, and a few blood vessels. It made him feel queasy.
"How much Mana does she have?"
"Somewhere in the 7,000s I assume?"
"How did she run out of mana yesterday then? I didn't run out and I have far less."
Seiren looked at him, "Izuku, how much do you think buffs cost in Mana? Let alone a regeneration spell or even a debuff."
He thought about it but came up blank. "I have no clue."
"Yesterday she was using Mana Gatling like you, and right as she stopped casting, she cast a second spell that lowered the Knight's armor even more so than what it was. She went in the negative by 800."
He turned to look at the destruction the little girl was causing. She caused a mini storm cloud to form and as the area was covered in water she froze all of it and used even the rain drops as spears trying to pierce the Crusader's Shield. "No idea what that was." When the shield didn't even crack, she sent out spears of bone from the ground. Instead of holding the target like yesterday, these spiraled bone spears attempted to tear through the shield, to no avail. "[Reaper's Talon]".
"What's its HP at?"
"It has only gone down by thirty. The damn shield is preventing almost all of the damage. She can't keep this up forever. Only until the elixir wears off and then maybe one more spell."
Izuku looked at her leg it had barely regrown from the last time he checked. He looked back at the battle and noticed something. It was Akito, he could just barely make out her silhouette in the gloom near the ceiling. "Seiren what does it mean if I can see her?"
She seemed to look at something only she can see and cursed, "Fuck! She's out of the elixir!"
He turned back to the little girl, and saw her wave her hands in what was no doubt her last spell. Crystals started to radiate from blood red aura coming off of Akito. A moment later Izuku who was standing in front of Seiren, was blasted back as an explosion went off. The whole cavern was covered in a red ooze that gave off an unsettling aura.
"Fuck, she's out." She tried standing but was unable to use her leg as the muscle had only just begun to form again. "We need to help her!"
Izuku standing back up and shaking himself off, looked as Akito gently glided down to the floor, right in front of the Crusader. He started to panic, which didn't last long as Gamer's Mind took affect. 'What can I do?' He quickly looked over his upgrades trying to think of a plan, and he decided to take a gamble.
'I hope this works.'
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Akito was out, mentally and physically. She had used Lost Chapter to replenish some of her Mana, so she wouldn't be negative. But that left her in dire straights. She knew she was in danger, but she hoped that her sister's leg had recovered just enough to save her. She took a look at her sister's status window.
[Seiren Hale Lvl: 32
Health: 23 / 2,270
Mana: 1,876 / 5,836
Stamina: 1,153 / 2,545
Current statuses: Missing Limb (Leg): This target is unable to walk.
Emergency Aid: This target is recovering missing limbs at a slow rate.]
'Well this was a bust.' She watched as she slowly fell to the floor into the Crusader's waiting arms. It took her a second to fall as she had cast a slow fall spell on herself. And as she was in grabbing distance the boss grabbed her by her neck and held her above him. She heard just barely in a gravelly voice, almost a whisper, "Death to all mages."
It then squeezed her neck causing an audible pop. As it had with her sister, their mom's buff saved her from certain death and had forcibly separated the two enemies sending the Crusader flying back, but not far enough that it was harmed. She crumbled to the ground after losing the only thing supporting her, and watched as the crusader skidded to a stop.
Then she noticed it, it's spell shield was gone, she had managed to destroy a shield that was meant to be her downfall. She felt proud of herself, but it wasn't enough to kick the sense of dread from out of her. She didn't want to die, she wanted to get a boyfriend, she wanted to have a kid, she didn't want to die here. Father would never know what would happen to them.
The Crusader had once again walked up to her and put its foot, covered in hundreds of kg of armor, over her, wanting to step on her.
It was at that moment she received a prompt.
[A Knight has declared an oath on you and shall protect you until their death, both here and beyond the grave.]
Then the Crusader was sent flying as something punched it away. She could just barely see the shoes of Izuku.
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Chapter 4 Done!
Cliffhanger for the win! Izuku proves his worth next chapter! Sorry for the shorter than normal chapter, I thought that was the perfect place to stop. Sorry :P
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New Perks
Blood Casting - Having access to a Necromancy spell has allowed you to replace Mana with HP.
Spell Crafting - Having access to Spell Casting has granted you the ability to create your own spells.
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Quality
[Steel Resolve Lvl: 1 25.00%
Fear has no place in your heart, gain a small boost to stats the first time you pass a fear check against a single opponent. The boost lasts for 1 minute.
Stat increases - +5 to all stats besides Luck.
This ability doesn't have a cooldown and resets against an opponent every 24 hours.]