"Congratulations, you have unlocked the achievement: Doomsday! This is obtained by creating an attack with the same if not greater might of an atomic bomb! You have unlocked the special condition: Uranium Fever!!"
Surprised by the message I checked my stats, the sight of the changes brought a giant grin to my face,
~User Info~
Location: 3rd Floor: Endless Forest – Baronac Dungeon – Monarchy of Duxley…
Incarnation: Yuriy Markov XV
Age: 10 Sols Race: Mixed +
HP: 2200/2400 // Stamina: 750/980
Fatigue :100/100 // MP: 5725/7000 // SP: 295/295
Stage: None (Endowment: Hatched Godling – Heaven domain)
Attributes
Str: 275.66 // Chr: 70.66 // End: 550.66
Dex:311.66 // Vit: 330
Int: 400 (405) // Luck: 11(84)
Moral Affinity
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Good ---------------Neutral----------------Evil
Elemental Affinity:
Earth: 10 // Fire:10 // Water:10
Air:10 // Light: 10 // Dark: 10
Lightning: 10 // Nature: 10
Ice: 10 // Null: 10
Special
Soul of the Doom Bringer // Guardian Angel(?)
Divine Vessel // Assiduous Mind
Soul concussion // Uranium Fever (New)
Living Artifact // Curse Eater
Ancestral Blood // Fearsome Vestige
Clover Peach mandrake, Ivy's lover
This looked really good. All the of the non-stop fighting between the 2nd and 3rd floors has caused my stats to skyrocket. I also unlocked a new condition. When selecting the new condition it read,
"Uranium Fever: After creating damage on a cataclysmic level, you now irradiate an even fiercer aura. Your bloodlust and murderous intent will now take on an atomic appearance, actively causing radiation poisoning to all who are unprotected. You now have the ability to use the arcane arts Atomicsaber Beam, Nuclear Meltdown and Radioactive Dragon Wave!"
If it wasn't bad enough, I had to be mindful of the radiation my elven blood created. Now I have to be careful not to kill my party with another form of radiation. This new tangible radiation is born from my existing bloodlust and murderous intent. (Great… just… great... I'm radioactive... radioactive)
The upside (I guess) is the new arcane arts all absorb the radiation I project. So as long as I am quick enough, I can capture all of this excess radiation and channel it into a spell. Naturally, I will try out the sword related arcane art first. It goes without say, this new spell is pretty much my elemental saber art (but for nuclear attacks).
Returning my focus to everything around me, I noticed the forest was unable to regrow. The highly irradiated molten lava from my attack had caused the dungeon floor's natural regeneration ability to stunt, this is good for us indeed. With this I spoke to everyone,
"Everybody, take a moment to rest and recharge, I will head out to make sure the after effect of my spell isn't harmful to everyone."
I received silent approval from everyone with faces that seemed to say take responsibility for the damage you caused. Taking a deep breath, I step out of the Ra's Domain covering the party and head to the nearest irradiated lava pool. If I had a Geiger counter right now, the thing would be going berserk as it beeped in response to the highly radioactive material.
Taking this chance, I tried evoking the Atomicsaber art spell Nuclear Draw. This spell is used to absorb radiation and house it in my mana palace filled with neutral magoi. As I began to absorb the radiation, instead of heading to my right foot palace, which was attuned to neutral magoi, the radiation split into 2 streams: one towards my accursed left arm tattoos, the other to my Divine Kingdom palace.
After 5 minutes, the irradiated lava pool was no longer a pool of highly radioactive material. Man, if I had this on Earth, I could have used it to dismantle every nuclear weapons program established, preventing nuclear war from ever occurring. Well, that doesn't matter now. What does matter is finding a way to absorb radiation instead of shielding myself and others from it…
Then it hit me. What if I modify Ra's Domain? Using the same concept and formula applied with Atomicsaber arts, I might be able to create a 4th stellar core with the purpose of acting as a radiation reservoir I can tap into at will. Then when I am finished with the spell, I can either absorb the remaining radiation into my palaces, or channel it into a neutral magoi crystal, or even use it as a stellar bomb for last ditch attacks.
Salivating at the options, I began working on the idea I had just stumbled upon. I wasn't worried about any attacks since everything within a 100km radius was completely destroyed. That and the remaining irradiated lava pools kept it that way.
After about 2 hours, I finished creating a new subroutine for my Domain arcane art Ra's Domain. I'll hold off on naming it after proper pressure testing. For now, I have the green phosphorus stellar core join the 3 other cores above the party and meditate for a moment, since everyone was still resting.
After another hour, it was time to move forward. With the new stellar core absorbing radiation nearby, and the lack of enemies, we were able to cover a lot of ground. By the time we reached the end of the irradiated field, monsters seemed to have grown extremely wary of us despite being mindless. I guess their instincts are screaming, telling them to take the long way around. This must have been due to the new stellar core.
I programed it to fire a highly radioactive bolt of fire towards any approaching enemy, while occasionally projecting waves of radiation. As long as we stayed inside the dome, we were protected from the radiation it created. Whereas all hostile forces within an 80-meter radius were assaulted by these radioactive waves. Either way, this was good for us since I was getting extremely tired of having to fight day and night.
With the newly obtained breathing room, we reached our target location by afternoon the following day, saving 3-4 days of travel! Further, whenever the green stellar core began running low, I would leave the dome and release the radiation. With my elven bloodline radiation the spell swiftly recharges, no magoi needed.
Anyway, once we reached our destination, we immediately set up camp within the dome. Then Ivy will head to the ideal location to commune with the floor boss. Before leaving however, I persuaded her to take someone along since this may turn sideways, to which she replied,
"Only one other person would be able to follow, everyone else will need to stay here."
She didn't say who, but everyone got the gist of what she was implying. Therefore, Ivy and I set out to the place she would attempt to speak with the Abyssal Treant. Apparently, this treant used a smaller version of itself to act as a commander within each region of the floor.
The smaller treants would mobilize all the monsters and trees to attack intruders. Afterwards, they would be used as storage units for the main body to absorb magoi and the dead. As we approached the lesser treant, small would be an inadequate way describe it.
The treant was about 300-meters tall, and had a width of 45-meters Now that's just with it sitting down. The humanoid spirit tree was currently sitting cross-legged with its eyes closed. As we got close enough, the treant awoke from its meditation and glared at us.
I remained still as Ivy got closer to the treant, eventually kneeling down and placing her hands onto the treant. The treant didn't prevent her from doing so and everything remained silent for a long while. Seeing this, I didn't worry about being attacked since all plant life and monsters obey the Abyssal Treant.
Thus, I too sat down and entered a meditative stated but didn't meditate too deeply since anything could happen. Like this, 4 days passed until Ivy removed her hands and I woke from my meditation. As for the treant, it simply closed its eyes and went back to its meditation. When Ivy approached, she spoke out,
"The floor guardian accepted our offer, but on 1 condition. You will need to fight and defeat its greatest champion. Should you prevail, the treant will provide a sapling to you which, once planted in the glade, will be purified, and grow swiftly as this abyssal shell of a floor guardian dies and withers. However, should you fail…"
"I understand. Actually, these odds are in my favor since I need an intense life-threatening experience to awaken aura. Let's regroup with the others and head to the core of the floor."
Not saying anything else, we headed back to the group and explained to the others what had been decided.
-End of Chapter