"Temarick? Well nice to meet you... huh?" Liz looked at her body and saw that she was wearing a black dress shirt, and white dress pants, and her hair was a familiar red with blue highlights.
Temarick saw The woman look at her hair confused then freeze when she looked at a mirror he had set up. "Is something wrong Lass?"
Liz was in shock looking at a Character she thought up staring back at her. Phoenix Liz. 'did they watch my streams and use this... form, for the game?'
Liz noticed Temarick was waiting for a response. "Yeah they gave me a different body and it's jarring... oh you can call me Liz by the way."
Temarick scoffed baffled at the statement. "Just when I thought I heard everything. Are there any important differences between the two then?"
"Besides my increased bust size? no there shouldn't be... actually, maybe there is." Liz sat up on the couch and put her feet on the ground.
She pushed herself up and with some effort, she stood up. for the first time in two years, she stood up, It was unsteady but she stood up. "Working legs... is the other difference."
Liz slowly walked to a window stumbling a couple of times. "Hahaha. So where am I?"
Temarick wasn't sure whether to be impressed or depressed about his student. "We call the plane noirheim and we're currently in the town of Goblet which ironically has a goblin problem."
"Goblins... So what kind of place is Noirheim?" Liz parted the blinds with her fingers to see out. What she saw were rundown brick buildings that had their windows Boarded up with no sign of people in sight.
Temarick took a cigarette out and the tip of his finger sparked with flame lighting the cigarette. A stream of smoke exited his mouth before he continued. "It was alright before that damn meteor fell here, messing up all the monsters and making them stronger and or more fertile."
The blinds snapped closed as she walked around the room, thoroughly enjoying the experience. "How many people are in Goblet?"
"29 not including us as far as I'm aware." Temarick pushed himself up and walked to a cabinet.
Liz glanced at the cigarette he was smoking. "Was that magic or something else?"
"What? Oh, this." Temarick's whole hand Caught flame as if it was a match making his face visible from the glow. Temarick was bald with brown skin, a green eye paired with a glossy orb and the left side of his face had a large scar that crossed the glossy orb and went down his chin.
The flame went out showing no damage to Temarick's hand. "This is what's called a skill. do you not have them where you're from?"
"No, how do you acquire them?" Liz
Temarick opened the cabinet showing his collection of alcohol. He fished around in the cabinet until he pulled out a dagger with a curved crossguard and a ring on it as well. he walked over to Liz and offered it to her. "You are either born with them or hunt down monsters that rarely have a skill stone and those give you a skill."
Liz took it confused but continued the conversation. "So how do I check if I have skills?"
Temarick then pulled out two knives and placed them on a coffee table. "You can pull up information about yourself by saying link."
Liz said link and words popped up in the air.
Name:Liz
LV:1
Curses/Blessings: {Nelbeck's sealing curse} (Mother of Phoenixs)
Skills: ]Progenitor of fire: I[ [Phoenix rebirth: I]
'They really tried to keep this lore accurate.' Liz read through the info and scratched the side of her head. "This doesn't tell me too much about them."
"So you have some?" Temarick took his flask out and took a swig.
"Well, I have two skills and two in the blessing slash curse category."
Temarick choked on his drink when he heard Liz. "*Cough Cough* the those blessings or Curses?"
"One of each I think." Liv grimaced at the coughing.
Temarick sat down on the couch and examined the knives. "Go ahead and poke the curse then ask me something if you need to."
Liz tapped Nelbeck's sealing curse and another set of words popped up in front of the last.
{Nelbeck's sealing curse}
The ancient black dragon Nelbeck cursed the phoenix mother with numerous sacrifices to fight with her. The curse was weakened when you arrived here.
The curse took your unnatural regeneration and massively weakening your skills. Although the curse seems to be weakened allowing you to heal your spine and revive again. but you couldn't grow your wings yet and reviving comes at a cost.
Liz hummed to herself as she processed the information in her head. 'hmmmm, If they're keeping this lore accurate Then that would mean something is happened to Nelbeck, since the curse is tied to his life...'
Liz glanced over to Temarick who was sharpening the knives. "Do dragons exist here?"
Temarick looked up annoyed. "shit, dragons? there's probably some north where the metor fell. Monsters poured out of that damn thing, So what kind of curse is it to ask that?"
Liz briefly thought about not telling him but brushed it aside since he was her (sort of) teacher. "This body has been cursed by a ancient black dragon called Nelbeck to make me killable."
Temarick stopped what he was doing and stared at Liz. "...Fucking what?"
Temarick's flat response made Liz laugh which she stifled. "How should i phrase this... hmmm, so this body is the is the creator of the mythical beast the phoenix and fought Nelbeck for his atrocious actions."
Temarick sighed and put the knives back in his trench coat. "You know a lot about this for it not being your body."
"Well I made this body's entire background that the makers of this world then made reality." Liz tried to hold the dagger properly as she changed her words slightly to fit his perspective.
Temarick a hand on his and dragged it down his face. "...God, whatever, let's talk about what your skills can do so I can teach you."
"Why do you need to know my skills to teach me?" Liz asked out of curiosity.
"Your skills greatly impact the fighting style you can make. since you saw my skill, you should know what i mean." Temarick replied with his own experience.
]Progenitor of fire: I[
You are the mother of all fire and it will never turn against you.
You are empowered by fire and With enough mastery, you bend it to your will.
"Fire makes me stronger and I can bend it to my will?" Liz was puzzled by the wish washy wording.
Temarick wasn't very surprised of the quality of the skill considering her body's apparent origin. "That's good, And what's the other?"
[Phoenix rebirth: I]
As the mother of phoenixs you can give creatures a new life as a phoenix.
The creatures you rebirth must ether be alive or recently deceased, 4 hours at most. (and it must be willing.)
due to the curse placed on you the creatures you rebirth will lose next to all of it's strength that it had previously. (It keeps skills and can regain the strength they it lost on it's own.)
Cost: Mental energy
The same wording as the last was getting easier to understand for Liz. "Um I can turn creatures into phoenixs even if they're dead, although they lose their strength but they can get it back."
Temarick's eye widened. "Is there a time limit for bringing them back?"
"I believe It's a permanent thing but I can only rebirth them if they died less then 4 hours ago." Liz watched Temarick take a deep breath and got up.
Temarick went to a large closet worked into the wall. He opened the folded closet and pulled two things, a white coat and a dagger that was a copie as the first. "What hand is your dominant?"
"My left." Liz had the dagger shoved into her hand hilt first and the coat draped over her.
it was at this moment you could see that Liz was a head taller then Temarick.
"Put that on it has holsters for the daggers." Temarick walk over to a door that had a number of bolts and locks on it. he started undoing them all.
"Who's coat is this?" Liz put on the coat which fit her very well and found the holster on the inside just below her armpits.
Temarick undid the last one and opened it. "A person who died a while ago."
"Where are you going?" Liz saw Temarick walk out the door and glance around at the view from the second floor window from hallway leading to more rooms that were all Boarded up and a set of stairs leading down.
"WE are going to cull some pests since you delayed that with your presence." Temarick said this then turned around to see Liz pushing her hair back. He stared then looked away and went down the stairs.
Liz chased after him when she realized he went down the stairs. "What did I do?"
As they exited the building the two heard a guttural screech, they looked to their left to see 5 green gangly figures sprinting at them. "Well, get ready for your first fight."