Actions followed by Reactions. Blade crossed against Bullet.
I clashed against a Man who I don't know. I don't have a reason to fight him beyond him having a reason to fight me. Time to test out some skills then huh, lets start with... Explosive Bullets!
My rifle rumbled and purred with built up energy. Pulling the heavy metal trigger released a laser like projectile, exploding on contact... contact with the dirt, I missed. Damn, well I got a few more to try out anyhow. After making some more distance from the Rouge I test the next skill... Shrapnel!
Well, it went as expected... the bullet fire out of my purring rifle combusted and spread out like a shotgun round. Some scrapped themselves into the ground, others managed to garner small cuts on the Rouge who immediately popped a small healing potion. Next skill... Grape shot!
Similarly to Shrapnel, grape shot granted my rifle the ability to fire... grape shots. Smaller bullets protruded from impossible angles in a cone like pattern. Nothing hit the Rouge this time, he dodged upwards into the air. Let's see... passive...passive...passive...passive... passive... Storing Shot, lets use that one!
The Rifle pulsated with energy, I attempted to pull the trigger but I couldn't manage to get it to budge. The Rifle charged on and on, gathering more and more energy... until eventually it started purring again. I pulled the trigger again, and much like ' Recall '... the effects were extraordinary. 30 Total Bullets were launched instantly from my barrel without recoil, many hitting the rouge dead on. Next I began ' Taking Shot '.
My Rifle made an audible Click sound, firing a pot shot at the Rouge I interrupted his healing.
Stats Stolen, 20 Dexterity temporarily added. |
IT STEALS STATS???
This is a remarkable rifle! What a deal, hit a target to deal damage, make them weaker, and then you just get stronger! What the hell, this isn't balanced at all! But now... lets see if it stacks with my 20% Dex boost...
Unfortunately... it doesn't. But I guess that is fine.
Time for the final skill... Consuming Shot. I can only assume this is either an execute or a upgrade of stealing shot. I prepared the skill, aiming my rifle dead on the wounded Rouge who weakly attempted to drink a healing potion. The rifle purred and shuttered, it's glow grew brighter and brighter... when it was finished I pulled the trigger... The Rifle exploded into a mass of metallic tentacles and teeth, it launched itself at the poor rouge and...
One tentacle pierced through his chest, running it's gnashing teeth along his insides while the other tentacles gripped and pulled away at every part of the man's body. The teeth on it shredding away not only his cloak, but flesh as well. Through the man's chest came more and more tentacles, and eventually the mound of Metallic horror opened up revealing a mouth. A large one, razor sharp teeth spun and whirred faster than a car tire, the man was lifted up slowly... and then voraciously consumed by the mass.
Consuming Shot complete. |
No shit. Now what?
Well... the mass of tentacles slowly pulled itself back into the shape of a rifle, then snapped into place... becoming what could only be called a rifle, there wasn't any way you could tell that the horrific monster is this gun unless you saw it for yourself. I went over to the rifle which purred as I touched it, I hastily put it away in the carrier as not to incite anything else. What a gun.
Nebula Fantasm huh... crazy. I bet Syn is going ' See! I told you so! We got to destroy it! ' but I'm ignoring him for now, I place the casing over my back once more... and get back to work. Before that though, I want to see what the effects of Consuming Shot are... System?
Confirmed |
' Consuming Shot ', upon activation allows ' Nebula Fantasm ' to assume ' Carrion form '. During this form, it will attack all nearby opponents. If any enemies get below a health threshold ' Nebula Fantasm ' can preform an execution attack that consumes the opponents. This also generates 1 soul for crafting use, deconstructs material consumed with the opponent for ' Cobalt ', and inflicts debuff ' Fear ' to all enemies who see it. |
Quite the excellent ability... so it is technically a Carrion because it can turn into one... that's really unique! The Souls gathered from this could help me craft too... beyond that, the materials that get deconstructed can be of great use! I could get more materials from Mobs like that... instead of a drop chance, it would likely just gather the material straight off the monsters.
Speaking of material, out of the rifle casing fell a stack of fine cloths and metals... none are useful to me though, I'll have to pass these onto some black smith guy or something to get anything remarkable out of ' Tempered Black Iron '.
Mission Complete then huh. I guess I can get back to work now. The metal is ready, Scarab is ready, and Syn is currently repairing his squad. It's fine to start work right now, Syn is only needed in the crafting process for speeding things up. So he can stand body guard, or watch dog considering he doesn't have his squad back yet. Good thing rouge type classes have very low health or that would of taken much longer.
So, I began making my boots. Using the three different special metals, the amount of pressure on my mind to get these to work together wasn't that hard with Scarab as a backup. Implementing the Rocket system was a little different then the last time I did it, as this time I had to make the system run on the Feather Storm Type metal... in addition, using a large mana crystal I copy down the signature of the special magic... and eventually ( with enough tinkering ) the mana crystal starts generating Feather Storm Mana! Using that in a addition to the wind type Crystals for the Rocket system will produce my desired outcome! Excellent...
Finally, I added a few pockets filled with clouds into the metal boots... it will make it lighter, and hopefully a double jump like last time. This will give me a huge boost in mobility, and maybe later it will grant me a large increase in magical prowess with the extra storm abilities.
Name Available |
Relic Boo- |
This item is being influenced by ' Harpy Magic ', this item is being influenced by
' Blood Petal King of Morin ', this item is being influenced by ' Nebula Fantasm ', this item is being influenced by ' -t2r e-34r ' |
Name Chosen -> ' Star Striders ' |
Unique Boots |
Thanks for berating my head with a bunch of nonsense again, but whatever...
I need another nap.