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Ign the Heavenly Demon’s insistence about having a male bride or something, which he po leave for much ter, Paul moved on to the matter at hand.
He took out all the materials inside his iory that could work, finding those high-quality medals from the family of his brother.
They were actually made of mithril, a highly magical material of very expensive cost and quality.
He had not sold these before because he knew he would get into trouble, so he left them there to rot.
But now he had an idea; using two of the medals, he threw them ihe cauldron that was located inside his soul’s inner realm.
Using the cauldron’s abilities, he heated the metal until it fully melted.
After that, he took out one of the many molds he had withireasury; this one was made to make es.
He added some supplementary metal from the treasury too, the lowest-quality Bck Spirit Steel, which inally didn’t seem patible with Ara at all.
However, oh metals merged through the miraculous powers of alchemy, something surprising happened.
FLUOSH!
A dark gold metal was formed; it emanated both the magical aura of Mithril and the martial aura of Bck Spirit Steel.
[Y-you made a new metal?!]
The Heavenly Demon was holy amazed.
Paul ignored him, tinuing his work. He used the e mold to create a e using this new metal.
The beautiful dark gold e had an exquisite appearance, with the tip resembling a ferocious dragon, which coiled down across the entire e.
“Now, to the fun part...”
He took out aem from his iory; the thugs he killed yesterday did have some loot. Iheir pockets, aside from a few thousand credit s, Paul also found small blue and red-colored crystals.
They were named Monster Cores, and they were often butchered out of the monster’s carcasses. These crystals were formed from the crystallization of Ara and other energies ihe monsters.
They were a valuable asset, w as batteries and as a basic magigredient for all myriad magic artifacts; it was even erpetually illumihe streets of Elderbridge.
The thugs he hunted down had around six of these; the blue ones were low quality, and the red ones were high quality. There were no mid-quality ones, which were green-colored.
“They sure are small.”
The strohe mohe rger their cores would be. These were very small, so the thugs probably only huhe weakest monsters out there for a living.
“It's still better than what I do.”
He felt frustrated that other people could go explore the world, hunt monsters, grow stret quests, and whatnot.
Since he had been stuck here, he hadn’t even been able to experiehe enjoyment other pyers gh.
“If I hadn’t gotten zy, maybe I could have ehe game with a different character.”
However, Paul had no way to turn back time; this was all he had, and he worked hard to improve his life in this game world.
“Like this? Here and there.”
The Heavenly Demon’s preseched in silence as Vd kept inscribing runes and magic circles into the e, using the authority of his own soul. He used his own Soul Ether to do this, making the work much easier and more precise.
“I-I think that’s it? Yeah…”
Once he was finally done inscribing, Vd quickly moved to the and st step, using Alchemy to quickly bihe runes and all the beast cores he had into the e.
He had made sure to leave some orifices, where he pced the beast cores inside, and then, through the Alchemy Skill’s ability to biems using various energies, he fihe work.
“Hahh… I’m done, man. I’m so tired…”
The e in his hands glowed with a beautiful golden light—his first-ever master opus!
Ding!
[gratutions! You have successfully synthesized the [Luxurious Apprentice Wizard’s e (A Grade)] x1!]
[The Subcss Skill: [Alchemy (C): Lv3] has Leveled Up!]
[The Subcss Skill: [Alchemy (C): Lv4] has Leveled Up!]
[You learhe Subcss Skill: [Crafting (D): Lv1]!]
[The Subcss Skill: [Crafting (D): Lv1] has Leveled Up!]
[You learhe Subcss Skill: [Runigravement (B): Lv1]!]
[The Subcss Skill: [Runigravement (B): Lv1] has Leveled Up!]
“A Grade… And so many Skills! Did I really do this?! Holy shit…” Paul quickly fot all the bad things he went through that day, feeling pletely fulfilled. “I did this…”
He almost passed out on the floor of his room, if it wasn’t because he had previously taken some soul and stamina pills, which quickly recovered his exhaustion.
[Holy, I’m impressed.]
The Heavenly Demon couldn’t believe his eyes. Paul had created something incredible by just thinking about it and doing it.
He had iigated and prepared too, but even then, what he had created was made using barely any materials he had around.
It was all his owivity and wits.
“I think it works fine. Let’s see… {Float}!”
FLASH!
Suddenly, Vd started floating, using the e as the catalyzer of the spell.
And this time, his Ara was not being drained.
The e had its own internalized amount of Are worth five beast cores—three low-grade and two high-grade ones.
They were small, but evehey had quite a lot of Ara.
Above all, the Mithril itself also had magic within; this also ended up increasing the amount of internal Ara that the e possessed.
Usually, a low-grade beast core power up a streetmp for a whole week. That streetmp is lit up using a basic spell that costs almost the same as Float, called "Ember.”.
Therefore…
“I think I could use this for a while…” Paul muttered. “D-Did I actually solve my movement problem? Did I?!”
He felt joyous and incredibly happy. Although he would still rather have his sister by his side because her Telekinesis was much better than Float, this was a great step forward!
He gave the e o look and created equipment items that had their own status after all.
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[Luxurious Apprentice Wizard’s e]
{Item Type}: [Magid] [e] [on]
{Item Quality}: [A Grade]
{Item Requirement}: [Unlock the Ara Stat]
{Item Durability}: [10.000/10.000]
{Item Effects}: [Ara]: [12.000/12.000] [Physical Damage]: [500] [Magic Damage]: [2.500]
{Runigravements}: [Tier 1 Wind Spell: Float] [Tier 1 Fire Spell: Fireball] [Tier 1 Earth Spell: Stone Shield] [Tier 1 Ice Spell: Ice Shard] [Tier 1 Light Spell: Shiier 1 Water Spell: Water Bubble]
{Description}
A Special Magid made by a crippled magi to facilitate his own travels using Float and the usage of other basic spells for basic self-defe is rather ckluster pared to other staffs and wands at its rank, but it is really good at preserving a its own Ara while also giving anybody who knows magic the ability to jure a lot of spells easily.
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Paul had engraved not one, but six different spells into the entire e, using every space he could find to do so! He used the six basic elemental spells he saw in the guide, which were very useful in many situations, even if a bit weak.
“This is good enough.” Vd nodded, feeling proud of his creation. “Anyways, it’s getting te; I gotta go…”
He felt a bit worried about leaving Camil alone, so he did his best to wake her up and tell her at least, but the girl wouldn’t wake up, very deep in her slumber.
[Don’t worry about her safety; this house has some sort of magic ward on it; I noticed it once you walked outside. It only allows members of the family to get inside.
“Hah, well… I hope so.”
Without any time to waste, Paul quickly made his way to the town square. Because it was always night in Obscuritas, people differentiated the active hours from the more inactive hours of each day through the ges in the moons.
In Obscuritas, three different moons were rge enough to be seen by anybody: the Silver Moon, Selehe Green Moon, Europa; and the Red Moon, Achlys. They were the guiders of the night for all members and were often praised as goddesses on their own accord, with religions surrounding each moon.
Usually, the Red Moon Achlys was said to be the mother of vampires and demons; the Green Moon Europa was said to be the protector of ord ogres; and the Silver Moon Selene was thought to be the guardian of werewolves and moon elves.
Their full-moon states interged every 8 hours, making out the 24 hours of a day once a cycle finished, starting with Selehen Europe, and stly Achlys.
Right now, Selene’s light was pletely gone, and Europe’s light was already being lighter, while Achlys' crimson light became more noticeable. Based on this, the inhabitants of Obscuritas could tell that it would soon be 5 p.m.
“I still ’t get used to never seeing the sun.” Vd sighed.
However, he tha deep down because he khat vampires had really deadly weaknesses against the sun and holy light, so it was better if there was no sun to hide from.
Obscuritas was a world almost perfect for vampires; none of their weaknesses were present, making them incredibly strong amidst the many other races.
Using his e’s {Float} spell and the e itself to move across the floor, Vd preteo simply be a rather fancy-looking young wizard, using a golden e to move around as if he were a gentleman.
He gained some eyes from people, whiaturally made him nervous because his stats were currently reduced by 90%! He wasn’t in his stro state, and he wao save his Heavenly Demon Trait for ter.
However, nobody seemed to want to mess with a wizard, as they only gred at him but didn’t do anything to him.
He also looked much er as he got himself some better-looking clothes, aually resembled a noble vampire now.
People feared vampires in Obscuritas, even more in the Empire of Iron Blood, and even in the more rural areas.
And Vd was doing his best to look as intimidating as possible.
“So where is he?”
He looked around, standing iown square aivating the Float Spell to save his wand’s Ara for now.
Chris old Paul his avatar’s appearance, so he had no idea where to look to begin with!
“Why did he keep his avatar’s appearance a secret? Is it some kind of big orc or something? Haha, that would be hirious and useful; a bulky tank wouldn’t be so bad,” Paul ughed after imagining the cute Chris trolling a giant brute oraybe he got a female avatar? Perhaps he might’ve gotten embarrassed about that too…”
“Hey… Excuse me, are you… Um, are you Vd? Paul?”
Suddenly, as Vd decided to sit dowhe fountain iown square, he heard a pyful voice ring behind him. It was a voice slightly more high-pitched than that of Chris.
But he definitely reized that voiyway!
“Chris?”
He looked behind him and found someone.
“Y-Yeah, woah, you’re really handsome—I mean, you look like the typical handsome vampire guy, ahem…” Chris tried to py it cool, despite his appearance.
“I-Is it really you?” Paul was having a hard time looking at him.
Why?
It wasn’t because he was hideous.
He didn’t look like an orc.
He wasly a girl, either.
A lot of people took a g Chris from time to time, too.
His appearance, although clearly male, was stunningly adorable and, for ck of a better word, alluringly sexy.
There was an aura of pure charm ay surrounding him.
His avatar’s appearance was actually quite simir to his real appearance!
However, he was slightly taller and lea least three timeters taller. He had a long, bck-colored tail with a pointy, heart-shaped tip.
His bck hair was now red, with a small ponytail behind and also a pair of small, cute hrowing from his forehead.
His skin ale and white as charcoal, and his blue eyes had bee a bright pink color.
Above all, his clothes!
It seemed poor. Chris didn’t have much of an option in terms of equipment options; his upbringing ended up giving him the sexiest ones a male could wear in this fantasy world.
Tight bck tex shorts adorned his beautiful thighs, and his only footwear air of bck boots that reached as high as his thighs, resembling stogs. There was no armor c his chest, but a piece of this same bck tex leather ed around his chest only, revealing his cute belly button to the world.
While in the surprise of looking at his extremely cute and sexy appearance, Paul noticed a pair of tiny demon-like wings behind his back.
“So… Well, I turned into an incubus... You may ugh right now if you want,” Chris sighed.
“Pfff…” Paul was surprised at first, but he couldn’t miss this opportunity. “Hahaha! Seriously, an Incubus from all races? I tell why you were so afraid of showing me what you became. And why were you so angry?”
“Uuggh! Stop rubbing it on me! I told you that you could ugh, nothing else!” Chris said angrily, whily made him cuter; his tail was waving around as he got furious, and he crossed his arms, sighing. “I hate these clothes! What kind of fetishistic world is this for demons to wear these clothes?”
“I thought you would like that, haha!” Paul ughed.
“I don’t! I want real armor!” Chris pined. “But this race has like... Some sort of restri in terms of clothes: I get weaker if I cover my entire body with clothes too, for some reason. A-And I have something called… Lust Stigma.”
Suddenly, Paul’s eyes widened as he saw a very sexy womb tattoo sitting right below Chris’ belly. It was glowing with pink and purple light for some reason.
“Argh, why is it glowing?!” Chris cried.
He suddenly saw a system message that Paul, thankfully, couldn’t.
[The user’s [Lust Stigma (Tier 1: Rank 1)] has activated after sensing the presence of a suitable target.]
[Do you wish to release {Enting Pheromoo facilitate the process of sedu?]
[Once sedu is successful, draining the target out of their life ford energies help the user bee stronger.]
[It is highly advised to try and seduce many targets!]
“SHUT UP!”
Chris screamed angrily, feeling more embarrassed than ever before, waving his hand until the system message disappeared.
“C-Chris?” Paul felt a bit scared.
“A-Ah! S-Sorry… I’m fine; I just am tired of this stupid character. I think I’m going to delete my at. Fet everything, Paul. Sorry, but I’m-” Chris felt too embarrassed and was about to log out.
“No, wait, Chris, please don’t leave!” Paul suddenly stopped him, extending his hand aly grabbing Chris' hand.
“Paul?” Chris wondered, blushing a bit.
“I-I need your help; seriously, I really . My character is also really fwed! I need party members, people that could give me a hand.” Paul sighed. “And well, I got a sister in this game now, and I worry about her... So you give it a try again? Maybe you have another power you could use; don’t give up yet.”
“Ugh…” Chris crossed his arms, looking at Paul in the eyes. “…”
But deep down, Chris' heart was rag.
Paul’s avatar appearance was, without a doubt, very handsome and charming.
Chris had blushed several times, and he was still doing so as Vd held his hand.
“Fine…” Chris nodded. “My character’s name is Alitheus Lilithie, yours Vd, right?”
“Yeah, not like it matters between Pyers, but when talking to NPCs, they will only reize your pyer’s name,” Paul nodded. “Let’s go with Alith for easy-to-remember names… Now, tell me how your power exactly works?”
“D-Do I really o? It’s super embarrassing!” Chris said. “It’s like this weird fetishistic thing that some perverted old man made in the game, and I unluckily got it.”
“W-What?” Paul muttered in fusion.
“Just look at my status, and you’ll see...” Chris sighed, looking elsewhere as Paul g his status.
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[Pyer Name]: [Alitheus Lilithie]
[Titles]: [Troublemaking Brat]
[Lust Stigma]: [Energy Absorption Realm (Tier 1: Rank 1)]
[???]: [Yet to be unlocked]
[Race]: [Half-Incubus (Fairy)]
[Css]: [Mischievous Demon: ★]
[Subcss]: [None]
[Sin Power]: [1.200]
[Strength]: [400]
[Vitality]: [900]
[Dexterity]: [1.000]
[Charm]: [2.000]
[Character Background Traits]: [Fairy Spirit Heart (Legendary Grade)]
[Character Background Fws]: [Insatiable (Legendary Grade)]
[Racial Skills (3/5)]
[Flight (B): Lv1] [Dream Eater (A): Lv1] [Charming Aura (B): Lv1]
[Css Skills (2/5)]
[Illusionist (B): Lv1] [Shenanigans (C): Lv1]
[Subcss Skills (1/5)]
[Detailed Observation (D): Lv1]
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“Ah…”
Paul analyzed Chris' status with Vd’s sharp, crimson eyes.
“So you have the Sin Power and Charm Stats, I see… And that… Lust Stigma is your progression ability?” wondered Paul. “Yikes… And what’s insatiable?”
“That I… my “needs” bee stronger and strohe more time passes without “eating”…” Chris blushed. “So it’s like that, yeah. See? I’ll just delete the at; this is too much.”
“No, I think I got an idea. You’re thinking things wrongly; I doubt you o actually be having... You know that,” Paul said. “Leave it to me; let’s go to a Dungeon now. I have a new wand, and I am fident we do something.”
“Why is he so fident out of nowhere? Is this really Paul?” Chris wondered as he nodded obediently at Paul’s proposal. “Sure…? I mean, I guess? What else do I have to lose at this point? Lead the way, captain~”
The party moved to the Dungeon Waiting Area at Elderbridge Vilge; there was a huge, crimson-cate sitting in the middle of the southern pza to the town square.
“What’s this?” Chris wondered.
“This is the entrao the instance dungeons; anybody ehem if we eogether as a party, and we’ll be brought together to the same "server." It’s like every time someone goes inside, a special dungeon only for them is made, get it?” Paul tried to expin.
“Oooh, okay, I’ve seen that before.” Chris nodded. “You’re such a nerd knowing all of this so easily; did you read the forums of the game or something~?” he smiled teasingly yet again!
“I… I mean, yeah, I did that.” Vd felt slightly embarrassed. “Anyways, look.”
[Beginner Dungeorance: Reerength Tier 1 ~ 3]
[Avaible Dungeons]: [Wild Dog Pins (Tier 1)] [Blood Bat King’s Cave (Tier 1~2)] [Obsidiaon Lord Lair (Tier 2 ~ 3)]
“There’s the list of dungeons we enter,” Vd said. “I would say to eier 1 first, to get used to everything and how they work.”
“Hmm, but that’s a bit me; let’s go to the hardest one!” Chris smiled. “Maybe I finally get some clothes out of it? And some epic loot or whatever! I’m so bored.”
“I tell!” Paul facepalmed. “Let’s go to the first one anyway; being reckless has no point; grinding effitly and quickly is better than trying our hardest in that Tier 3 Dungeon; it's not worth the effort for now.”
“Dude, you’re so dull... e on!” Chris kept insisting.
“No is no, Chris; let’s be diligent. Let’s go.” Paul offered his hand to him.
“W-What?” Chris asked embarrassedly.
“Grab my hand.” Paul smiled gently, his handsome vampire face making Chris shiver.
“O-Okay?” Chris grabbed his soft hand as the two walked towards the portal in front of them, ohe party before them had already gone in.
Paul selected the Duhey wao go to, and both were teleported away.
FLASH!
“And we’re here, see?” Vd expined, looking around.
“Wait, it was only for this? I thought… Ah, never mind,” Chris shrugged. “Hey, where are you going?! Wait!”
Chris started chasing Paul as he moved across the dark pins; they had just arrived.
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