Reliving The Past ~ Mage Of The Abyss 53 Chapter 47 ~ The Stone Kingdom

"This is where we part, Travelers," said Gallus, "Though, if you need an extra blade, provided you have the coin, I will always be available in the Adventurer's Guild at the second layer of the kingdom. You only need to ask."

~ {Companion: Gallus] available to be hired.

Notifications appeared before them.

"Ohoo, this is what I like when playing games. Those ringing sounds when you check your menu for rewards, Mm! Kinda addicting if you know what I'm saying." Said Kurira.

Siola chuckled in agreement.

Rakuri steps up, s.h.i.+fting her slowly to her right and then to her left. Feeling that the air is cold, it's as if it's going to rain soon. "So, what do you think we should do?" she asked Kurira.

"Oh, you're asking for MY opinions now."

"What's wrong with you, don't you remember you were always the one issuing commands."

"G.o.d, why can't you just be honest. I was and still is THE LEADER of this party. If you keep this up, I'm going to steal your Dola from you."

Veins quickly popped up in her cheek, "You,,, tceh, talking as if you can do it." With a grin showing in her face, Kurira responded, "Heh, I already f.u.c.ked her a bazillion times before, and right behind your back! She even said I'm better than you."

"Huh?!!"

"…"

Siola looking at them in silence, and then said, "Oh yeah, we used to do it a lot back then."

Rakuri quickly turned her head to her, "Huh? Wait, you…"

"Ah…"

Siola's loose mouth quickly turned the atmosphere into that of an abysmal air, Kurira spins around and tried to sneak away. Though with a tap on her shoulder, she senses death coming from her behind. A huge tremor just shook the trio's party.

…

With a face full of bruises, Kurira is staring down at her pair who is prostrating herself right in front of her, "You… should've heard the context behind it first before acting on it, hon."

"Ngh" Rakuri just took 100 Mental Damage.

The context in question is that... back when Rakuri doesn't hold any feelings for Siola, Kurira would invite Siola several times a day to have some "Fun". She explained how her love for Siola went fruitless because she wasn't interested in women at the time, but only wanted to try the intercourse part. Quickly after, Siola got addicted to it and they have been doing it all the time behind Rakuri's back, which at the time, doesn't care at all about what the two are doing.

Turning her face to Siola. Kurira humbly asked, "… And you, please, shut your mouth."

"I'm sorry… ;_;"

She ignored her apology and went to open her status, "Please, tell me you got something good because I'm about to bash your a.s.s with this broken plank."

Kurira going polite is something the two most terrified about.

Due to the team having an organized type cla.s.s, the exp gain is counter-balancing each other to a stable rate to that of a normal party, with Rakuri in the Base, Kurira in Advance, and Siola in Pinnacle. That led them to have a generic progression just like everyone else, at least, close to them. Now that they have received another Bonus exp gain, the progression rate can go even higher IF they managed to do it properly and diligently because there is a time limit to it.

There is also a concern of Rakuri's and Kurira's ident.i.ty, they cannot fool everyone forever. Once their life is steady again, they are planning to take Siola out of the house in a more appropriate way, as in truly, and this time, for real.

Rakuri especially, wants peace to go back to her life now that Siola is with her again. They don't want war with the Mithra Family.

Going back to the matter of the experience points. The EXP bonus are stacking with each other, but not stacking in a way that makes it longer, but in a way of adding it on top of each other. With 100% bonus exp gain from the update and another 100% from the bonus just now, it's totaling to 200%.

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Status [Level 25] Progress: 5%

Name: Siola / Occupation: Necromancer / Rank: Novice

Health: 3000/3000 / Mana: 0/0 / Stamina: 100/100

Strength: 0 / Vitality: 0

Dexterity: 0 / Resistance: 0

Intelligence: 34 / Faith: 106

Ability

t.i.tle: [None]

Perk: [None]

Innate Ability: [None]

Active Skill: [Create Entry-tier Undead] [Release Seal]

Pa.s.sive Skill: [Reanimate]

Spell: [None] ~ 5 Slot Available

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Status [Level 25] Progress: 5%

Name: Kurira / Occupation: Templar / Rank: Novice

Health: 1800/1800 / Mana: 100/100 / Stamina: 1200/1200

Strength: 36 / Vitality: 17

Dexterity: 25 / Resistance: 18

Intelligence: 4 / Faith: 40

Ability

t.i.tle: [None]

Perk: [None]

Innate Ability: [None]

Active Skill: [Nimble Movement] [Holy Blade] [Light Flash] [Blinding Light] [Divine Blast] [Healing Hands]

Pa.s.sive Skill: [None]

Spell: [None] ~ 5 Slot Available

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Status [Level 25] Progress: 5%

Name: Rakuri / Occupation: Mage

Health: 300/300 / Mana: 2100/2100 / Stamina: 600/600

Strength: 1 / Vitality: 1

Dexterity: 25 / Resistance: 1

Intelligence: 120 / Faith: 0

Accessories:

- [Ludwig's Ring] Temporarily Defy Death for 18 seconds, allowing you to recover your attributes at the duration of the effect.

Ability

t.i.tle: [None]

Perk: [None]

Innate Ability: [None]

Active Skill: [Flame Creation] [Windbolt] [Earth Manipulation]

Pa.s.sive Skill: [None]

Spell: [None]

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In terms of combat prowess, Rakuri is sitting at the top as expected. At each rank, a mage will be given an option to choose between the 4 main attributes of magic. Fire, earth, water, and wind.

Flame Creation, it is a spell that allows the player to create flames out of thin air. Due to it being a Mage startup spell, it has been integrated into an Active Skill instead of taking slot in the Spell section. Windbolt is akin to firebolt but using invisible air instead of flame while Earth Manipulation is a spell that can alter the earthly ground close to the shape the user wants, though only temporarily. They will go back to normal after a few moments.

Kurira holds the most skill than the rest. Starting from Nimble Movement, which allows the user to move at a faster speed and maneuver smoothly in battle. Holy Blade, a spell that can cloak the user's weapon with miracles. Different from Light Magic, miracles is something that can only be upgraded in potency only by Faith stats instead of Intelligence stats. It can be said that it's a Miracle Spell instead of Magic Spell.

[Light Flash] and [Blinding Light] work the same way, they blind the surround enemies in the area, but Light Flash can also burn undead and has a wider range. Blinding Light on the other hand, instead of one-second use, the spell is floating above the user's head for an extended period of time, but with the cost of higher mana consumption and shorter range.

Not to be confused or related to the Divine herself, [Divine Blast] is a tier 2 Light Magic that sends a holy sphere at the targeted location and exploded upon impact.

Siola has the most… err… unique stats of the bunch. But, her skill… she can create undead of anything to her knowledge as long as she got the compatible body for it. This is considered to be something strong, but it can also be a double-edged sword at the same time. The word "compatible body" alone already invites trouble, meaning she can't use that skill if she cannot find that "compatible body", which she most like won't since in battle, enemies need to die first before she can resurrect them, and the worst part is the time limit.

The only way for her to be at least somewhat useful is by achieving the next rank, the Apprentice. By reaching that point, she will receive the rest of the Seal that can allow her to be an actual Necromancer and not someone that can only manipulate the dead.

Looking at more depth through their stats, only Kurira that seems normal. The other two completely went min-maxing. It is quite questionable for Rakuri to increase her DEX, being a mage and all that. Siola on the other hand, went complete min-maxing in a different way. A Necromancer benefitted a lot from dark attributes, which can also be achieved by having a high Intelligence and Faith stats, but instead of upped them at the same time and have the same numbers, Siola went 1/4. Completely focusing, only on her summons.

Increasing Faith will have more chances to success in reanimating, but losing the ability to make them stronger. While increasing Intelligence does the opposite.

They shared each other's status as soon as it was up and then continued to open up their rewards in the inbox.

Each of them got themselves a box. In the bottom corner of the icon, there is a description that says "Unique". There are many more rarities in the game, but more on that later.

As Siola pressed her finger in the menu to open the box, it quickly turned physical and dropped right in front of her. The same can also be said to the others.

Rakuri sighed, "What a pain."

They went to open them nonetheless. The box is almost the same size as a cake package, decently matched with Siola's small hands.

She found a few cards inside. The back of the cards have a different color, one is gray, the other two are green. Flipping them around, she saw what the contents are.

Unfortunately, it's not something she would be happy to have. She knows that she should've expected it when the color was revealed. Excited to see it unfolded, but it turns out it's not even close to what she wanted.

~ [20% Discount ~ Center Marketplace] x2 obtained.

~ [10% Discount ~ Any Player Store] obtained.

Hardening her lower lip, she wants to bite it so hard. "Just who the f.u.c.k… Think… it's a good idea to use RNG in a f.u.c.king REWARD BOX!! We worked hard for this s.h.i.+t, and this is what we got??!!" turning her head to Kurira, "Err, I'm sorry. I don't get anything… good."

She was worried that Kurira would really spank her, but she too was furious at her own loot. "Um, what did you get?" asked Siola. After a brief paused, she sighed, "Uncommon dungeon key. A f.u.c.king green item, hon. Can you believe that?!"

Siola indeed knows what if feels like to receive such disappointment, now their day is ruined.

Though when they s.h.i.+fted their eyes to Rakuri, "HUH?!!" their eyes quickly widened to its edges, baffled by the sight that is in front of them.

A glowing dark red card is being held in Rakuri's grasp. "N-Nuh… no way" mumbled Siola in disbelief.

Rakuri glanced at her and grinned. Without showing it, she quickly pocketed it in her own personal inventory. "Waaaaaaaaah!!" Siola tried to s.n.a.t.c.h it away from her with tears in her eyes, though her hands hugged nothing but Rakuri's bottom front, "Waaaaa… Rakuri… I'll do anything, I'll do anything! Please, switch with me, EXCHANGE!!"

She rubbed Rakuri's bottom with her hair as she said that. Rakuri only let out a chuckle, and then patted her head. "Ngh, it's not fair. Why are you always getting the good stuff…"

Stroking her hair gently, Rakuri didn't say anything.

"Hm?" Siola noticed something, she felt something keeps b.u.mping with her scalp. As she look up, she saw Rakuri's finger holding a ring. She recognized it, "Wait, that's…"

"Mm? Ahh… I met Ludwig behind that door."

"And he gave you that ring too?"

"Yep."

"… I… see."

Siola suddenly felt bad. She's not against Ludwig replacing her for Rakuri, but the fact that she knows that they have abandoned her, makes her feels... somewhat sad. But then Rakuri patted her head again, saying, "Here, he asked me to give you this."

"Hm?" her eyes light up, "What's this?"

"Purgatory Seal…" she then told Siola everything about her encounter with Ludwig, Kurira didn't show any interest so she just ignored them.

Siola's expression lightened knowing that there is a chance to redeem it all. It wasn't her mistake, at least, not purposefully. She abandoned the game for quite a long time, and then many things start happening all of a sudden, disallowing her to continue the journey.

"You girls done? I don't know why it's not raining yet, but I for sure don't want to get wet in this state. Come on, let's go" said Kurira abruptly.

The two quickly went to catch up with her, following her path behind.