After much discussion we both go into the arena and got ready much like before Josephine takes items outta mid air which she said is something she can't explain... this time it's a big staff... a metal one... Ok it's a spear... But she's a mage so I give her the benefit of the doubt when she stabs me in the gut with it... Guess this mage uses a spear digging the stab I slap her ass with the dull edge of my blade just to see if I could land a hit and then a loud thud echos out... We both just look at each other for awhile before she breaks out into laughter for a moment before suddenly becoming enraged and starts attacking from every direction as greyish Spears mirror her own and dance and stab around me... Laughing I swap out my sword and start trying to use my new refining skill to use those energies in other skills... For starters the basic mage barrier skill I bothered to pick up during my material search recently... All her attacks are shredded by the sharpness of my barrier and absorbed becoming a part of the barrier... Looking intrigued at the chaos mana in my barrier slowly changing color I leave the barrier up and find myself attempting to temper my chaos mana through her's which seems to infurate her as she starts attacking with nothing but chaos mana I guess to make my shield explode I don't know... but it just funnels back into my body and deconstructing into regular mana before turning into chaos again repeatedly whilst cycling through my body then back into the shield... Eventually Josephine's anger turns to shock... Then I tried using chaos mana to cast regeneration and pick up a 13 minutes 45 second buff that gives a random health per second as healing... Intrigued by the idea I kept raising the buff repeatedly till I realized that I'm healing all my health every second and it'll last for 4 hours... Kind rediculous but it did take two days to cast it up to such a ridiculous number... As for Josephine? Well... she's taken a few breaks since we started... However she's to unable to break the chaos barrier with her stats lowered to what they'd be at my level... as for my mana it's been refined a lot of late... as my body is progressing through the tiers and my chaos energy grows forcing all the elemental energy and sword energy to grow with it... Josephine has gone from random emotions to mostly intrigued as she has been studying how my chaos energy is being refined by my sword energy and constantly trying to test my limit by pumping in more chaos mana... despite all the absorbing and refining my chaos mana is still totally different then hers... hers is dark grey while mine seems so clear the clear sword mana can be seen in it...
Which is a impressive feat... She says the difference is because my mana is still just mana... and is only chaotic by nature but hers is chaos itself... The only reason her mana doesn't just consume mine like a gust before a hurricane is my gust is full of swords... It took a week of refining my mana before she finally figured something out and began to piece into my mana barrier with her flying spears of chaos... It then takes her a month to pierce through my barrier entirely... At which point I dropped the barrier and sprinted to her and started to engage her in hand to hand combat slowly lowering her HP through booty slaps which pisses her off immensely so to her request I stopped and just dodged for an hour before she asked me to fight again but I said I already stopped attacking why attack again I figured she'd get mad at my teasing but she just laughed and stopped attacking. Then she put away her spear and started getting naked... Which surprised me a little. Then she walked towards me and we kissed... So the battle took on a different field then the deadly arts but turned to arts of making life just like that... No words were spoken until she passed out unconcious 4 weeks later from the constant "battle"... I didn't ask why not do I question the fact my bloodlust blade work and all the other skills went up many levels... Bloodlust is actually 99... blade work hit 104... which turns out it counts as a sword technique... either because my body is techniquely being refined into a sword technique or... cause it is called blade work... I don't know... All I know is I can level it to 500 apparently... As for my mana core... It's level 358 right now... Which makes it able to hold many times my own mana... After my immortal bed mate passed out... I finished my quest... and weirdly leveled up... 7 times... So... Level 50... now... Ha... I wish it was possible for me to basically skip the master rank as well but out of armor and I doubt I'll fuck a immortal level woman into unconciousness in the next challenge... after all master level doesn't require me to meet or fight a master in the immortal level... It just asks you to fight your way up a tower. No one has reportedly ever reached the top... Some say it's endless... Some say it's gods dick... others say it's the stairway to heaven... which is what people commonly refer to as the highest realm... We don't know what it's actually called much like the sky continent... There's no actual continent in the sky... people just call it that... it got popular then it became the name of the place... Like if someone named your home something else and everyone from that other person place shared the name. Hell is the only other realm mentioned in lore... It doesn't even mention the lore for the realm between hell and earth... Many people call it purgatory though... No clue why... Wouldn't it just be the underworld... Hell being below that... Purgatory would be... where we are... right? I mean at the exact middle between heaven and hell we exist... However purgatory is sometimes mentioned in the lore as the place we wake after dieing... the infinite void before we resurrect... Nobody knows if the purgatory popularly known and the purgatory in lore are the same place though... Most just guess that when NPCs actually die they stay where we go when we temporarily die and becoming a ghost is just staying in our realm but coming from purgatory... After leaving the trial I check out my level 500 Expert Unique Grade Sword skill and can't help but wonder if I need to figure out how to get that shit to immortal... as for my reward for the overall trial? It actually gave me a bloodline... Most get peak legendary bloodlines some even got ungraded or unique bloodlines but I got something different... it's an demigod bloodline... It's ungraded and has no racial attribute so much be some kind of fused bloodline...
*Demigod Bloodline*
Yep... That's the item description... I guess I should fuse all my other bloodlines into it to make my unique bloodline? If that's even an option... It should technically be above the unique grade... It should be the unique grade for the immortal realm... But It's not refusing the fusion panel and the other bloodlines fit... As for what will come out... I don't know... it may just stay as a the same bloodline and have zero change when I add in all the other bloodline attributes... Sighing I visit the saints Villa and find Erica hasn't left yet apparently waiting to congratulate me before I start again... I first ask Erica to teach me a bit about taming which technically isn't possible as she's a sword path teacher but she knows taming and has a relationship with me so it became possible... After raising my taming skills to cap over this while I can technically take the path quest for taming... healing magic... stealth... speed... all the other kinds of magic... It's also showing it's possible to learn chaos magic... But the teacher doesn't exist... To my knowledge... So I ignore that... I do know one thing... If I can learn all the basic elements arts to master unique level I may be able to empower my chaos mana... As each one boosts it's specific element... After some chatting with the lady I pick up both kinds of trial stones... One with a foot print upon it and the other with a sword marking... The foot print doesn't represent the kind of trial but that it's a trial I've technically already done... That's the path quest... It will lower me to basic level and give me the hunter quest like... Luckily I can still technically use sword skills... As the path trials are only open to those who learned all the skills it's technically possible for any skills to be used during the trials simply because using your main attribute to empower your secondary isn't that bad but I can use all the attributes to empower all the attributes... Which is definitely a cheat... After some debating I decided I'd do more then my intial plan in bloodline paths... I should grab the paths for every attribute but and dump the bloodlines into it as well... I mean I've got this demigod bloodline it'll probably have 0 effect no matter what I fuse into it... so whatever... as for the last sword trial... I'm not gonna do it just yet... As all the trials include mass spamming monsters I'm probably gonna get pretty far... in them so I need to handle some stuff before I leave again... I probably shouldn't head home or I'll cause issues leaving immediately after... so I sigh and don't mention my presence and start flying around picking up path skills. First for all the attributes then all the elements then I run off to tame a pet and fuse all these bloodlines... I've got a lot... 36000+ peak legendary bloodlines to be exact... all of the sword variety... so... sloth stone isn't an option... And all the other issues are a problem... so my first thought is maybe to finally make a bloodline of my own? Then maybe farmer up a demigod bloodline just to see what happens but what if my pet turns into a demigod and kills me? Or just explodes and the bloodline disappears... so issues are clear... Granted my inventory continues to grow at 100000 spaces it stopped being slot based and just became a world of its own... Granted I've still got the bag slots... which weirdly ended up at 15 so far... But I've only filled the one... As for the void space same rules as the inventory... I can stuff stuff into it... It just only gets full but isn't displayed at how full it is I'll only know when it's full... So I've got no clue how much space in my inventory I have anymore... After getting the beast I fuse all my epic and one peak legendary bloodline together to test something... After the successful creation of a unique bloodline I checked to see if it would fuse with the demigod bloodline and it is allowed... Smiling I change my mind and get a sword beast that is of the master grade and level it all the way to it's cap level of 100 before I use my old ungraded bloodline and fuse all the bloodlines together into it and get a super strong sword bloodline that is still unique despite all the ingredients... it can also still fuse with the demigod bloodline and even doesn't have a issue with multiple unique bloodlines going into the demigod bloodline... So... Of to work I go... To gather trial stones... After two days of work I managed to find a good 500 trial stones... that I like and begin doing the basic trials then the higher level trials... Each only takes me a week or so because I manage to snipe the beasts before they even get halfway there cause I don't need the bullshit bloodlines of most the trials... As for the elemental bloodlines and the stat based bloodlines I keep them... The only other bloodlines of a path I didn't ignore or discard were stealth, magus, marksman, beastmastery and blood... The blood bloodline is the only bloodline associated with the blood demons that lead people to believe they can go into hell if they get the blood demon bloodline... It's not a demon bloodline in itself but a bloodline that boosts other bloodlines... It can only be found if you do the blood magic trials... Which is an annoying trial where you fight blood demons in an infinite number... Which allowed me to amass some dragon, Titan, angel, Phoenix bloodlines... and a few others... actually I managed to get all the individual flights of dragon bloodline from that one trial... seeing as it was open ended as well I spent two whole months in it before I hit wave 10000 and was kicked out and given the blood bloodline... All my dragon bloodlines are at epic grade so I went and fused em all and got chaos dragon bloodline... Which wound up being a unique despite having a specific race in the name... Then I fused Titan and all the other mythical bloodline and got something called myth bloodline... Stage two of the blood magic trials... sadly don't exist... Also the skills for the first trial didn't technically exist... It's a trial you get by learning a path no class can get... Which makes it quite a unique trial I guess... After some research I discovered it's actually a part of a hidden class quest line called blood mage... Blood mage isn't known to the public I did research with NPCs... Supposedly the person who gets the blood mage class will make it possible for other classes to go to hell for they've got a demon bloodline... At least that's what I surmise from the lore... If I knew where to get said class I'd make it public just to be nice... But eh... No clue... Just picked up tid bits from the lore of the trial grounds... I could only do it because the npc treated my class as the blood mage... Seeing as I'm no class and every class... Which is a weird hidden perk of this talent... Oh I did never mention the other thing the expert trial did... I forgot cause it was totally normal but I broke through 3 more levels of my mortal coil and my conversion rate is now 3.2 million... just a few more levels till level 10... I guess I'll get them at the master level trial or the ascension trial... After a couple months of working I figured I'd better start the sword trial or I'ma get hell when I finally get home for being gone for years and obviously not being in the sword trial that long despite not talking... So I use the trial stone and enter the system messages to tell them my strange predicament... At first Crys and Affie were mad I ignored them for months for no good reason but they understood about a week later... As for the others... Well they never learned the truth... Affie and Crys thought is was for the best... They think I somehow managed to go from the expert trial to the master trial instantly and had no choice... So they wait patiently for my return as I enter to master trial... This trial is much like all the others in that it's gonna swarm me... But it will include only master level monsters till it reaches the saint level... Then eventually pillar level if you somehow survive all the saints... Of course no one has... We just know that from the rules of the trial... It's clearly spelled out... After 5000 waves you will encounter pillar level monsters... After 10000 you will encounter immortal level monsters... After 1million you will fight God level monsters... Of course no one has ever proven I'd any of that is any true it just says it in the window... Even if I could maybe fight the immortals I'd have to get past the regular immortals let alone the demigods... which is why I actually plan to create my bloodline in the trial... after all most master level monsters drop epic bloodlines at least... fusing them all the unique is a waste of time I might as well just fill my inventory entirely with peak legendary bloodlines them fuse the entire lot of them into the demigod bloodline the hopes of getting a good sword related demigod bloodline... as for the other bloodlines? got em all all paths finish up to expert I can't follow a secondary path to a new level though... so master is needed now... Also no bonuses for me personally and no new demigod bloodline... the highest I got is a unique of each brand and some low level immortal bloodlines... The highest being immortal saint stage 1... the skills for expert weren't very necessary as I actually skipped both that and the immortal part of the trials in all the other expert trials... Now I'm in a graveyard... every tombstone seems to be a sword piercing the earth however and theirs no graves... Just the tombstone swords... I guess sword graveyard is the correct term... how wuxia of you... A sword floats from the ground and turns into a monster and the first wave starts... Killing it quite easily the second wave stats and 2 spawn... this goes on for a thousand waves before the mobs start raising in level as well... At stage 2000 I've got 2000 level 100 mobs... At stage 2001 I encounter a level 1 saint level beast... Then I have to fight saint level beasts till I reach level 3000 at 100 level 1 saint level beasts then at from their it starts raising the level as well... At 4500 it's 1000 level 6 saints... which is... actually quite difficult... It doesn't get harder again till level 4800 where level 7 saints start spawning and then at wave 5000 I fight my first real immortal opponent... granted they are weakest immortal possible... Still it's quite the challenge... I almost die and barely succeed before the enemy kills me... Then I open up the fusion panel as I put up a barrier and try to fuse all my current bloodlines together creating a bloodline of my own...
The trial seemed to stop for hours nothing moved the sword still floating their as light built at the center of the glasslike barrier... Before the barrier shattered as a wave of pressure soard out and every sword except a thousand suddenly shattered. The thousand all representing demigods... Each sword rose from the ground and the shards from the other swords fused together and all flew towards the center of the graveyard where the barrier remained the thousand demigod swords fused into the barrier like drops of rain into a pond... As the clear mana inside the glass like shield ripples about faster but no other change occurs in it... Then my eyes open but I still don't see my conciousness far away... yet knowing my eyes are open my body wants to wake... Struggling to wake me up as my heart beats once... twice and blood begins to flow yet again through my body... then hundreds of swords begin to fall from the sky and hit the barrier this time like boulders into a extremely deep pound the whole barrier quakes and shivers and then stills yet again as all the swords are gone... With a shiver a sword is manifested in my hand and the world quakes and shatters instantly returning me to where I entered the trial of swords... Two windows popping up at the same time... One confirming that I finished the trials... All gods defeated... which is surprising... And the other confirming the creation of my bloodline...
*True Sword Spirit Bloodline - Unknown Grade - Level: 1*
What's an unknown grade? And what the hell happened? Sighing I stop thinking about it and look at the prize to my master level quest and realize my mortal coil is complete... Level 10 of 10... But it's not done? The conversion is a trillion to one... But it says I can still raise it... Hmm interesting... As for my status... It shows no more numbers... I guess... At least under stats no numbers are shown... My health is still visible my skills are still their no real change... Talents the same... but a new bloodline is present... Then looking at the master level quest completion again I realize I overlooked something... It's possible to get a second bloodline? Huh... well I guess it is now... Shrugging I move on with my life as it's clearly impossible to top my current bloodline... at least in this world... Heading home I realize... my speed might have some issues... With one step I find myself barreling through the sky for miles... Ok... So I need to work on my strength... Rather then heading home I run around for awhile and punch a few mountains till I reach a certain level of control and head on home... However I realize I may have ran thousands of miles from home... which surprisingly only takes me a day round trip... Seeing all the busted ass mountains I can't help but sigh... Badass strength growth... But what's the point of leveling if my stats aren't even visible? Do I gain anything from leveling anymore? On the way home I meet a large beast who seems hostile and attacks on sight but it dies in a couple slaps and I loot it's corpse... and realize that was a pillar beast... Whoops... this is gonna be an issue... without the pillar beast the barrier beasts will likely come to land... Hmm so I take a detour on my way home and start taking down all the barrier beasts around the continent one by one... A week later the continent is safe... and I just said those words lol... So I head back home with an interesting experience... On the way debating if I'd go finish all the other master level trials or maybe go upgrade my compass?