"Ah, go to see you. Smouldering fang guy." I said to the guy, which didn't hurt him at all.
"Soo," The man asked "What are you going to do now?"
"Oh, I'll 100% get the other two of the trio. Smouldering fang of madness, regal heart of eterity, and savage claw of atrocity. Then I'll get 'Crown of endless might'!"
In the back round, some loser shouts "Shut up!"
I frowned then said "Let's talk, about what we're going to do from now on, did the elf girl get convinced not to join?"
"No clue."
The two of us walked into the stables and picked up my wolf, and stood at town square while talking about what to do now.
"First, I should get a good relationship with the church of Atrea, I really want their blessings." I explained.
"Good point, good point."
"Second, we should get you geared up with artifacts of D-rank or higher. Full assortment, 10 rings, maybe 20. Gloves, arm bands, bracelet, shoes, pants, and a chest-piece. If you're extremely devoted, earings, necklace, piercings."
"Let's not do piercings or earings."
"Third, get good potions made, I can make potions, like high-quality, maybe highest-quality, it'd be best if I had an alchemist."
"I'm a
"Great, you should really change it though."
"I know, I really want to."
"Fourth, we should go after a nearby C-rank monster and get a good dagger out of it, then go after a speedy wolf C-rank to rank up the Wind wolf. Then we'll get to C-rank and go to another city instead of this resort for the parasite family. Where there are dungeons."
"Dungeons are nice"
"They are, especially the ones that give clear ranks." I said "Now, let's get started."
The guy went back into the guild and said that he was leaving his party for 'Personal reasons', and that he'd like to join my party 'Imperium', then I went back in and accepted his request.
Our party was now made out of an E-rank (Ranked up because it showed I killed 20 Wind wolves alone, which was true.) and a D-rank (Da guy). We could do D-rank missions because the party 'Imperium' was reported to have killed 20 Wind wolves.
It was called 'Imperium', and I would change the name when I know the gimmick of the party, or I would just make another party. Fun fact too, I can't add new things that I had slain to the card, sadly. Why? I'd like to know too! If I knew, I would scam a ton out of the adventurer's guild while building up my rank without doing anything.
Right now I have 35000g, don't know why I didn't get 210000g, probably because it says '35000g per person'.
That'll be enough for 2 'Lesser strength' potions, and 5 'Speedy boi' potions, the 'Speedy boi' potion was made by players, so the name is a bit weird.
But, the money is enough for me to get some friendship with the Atrea church. With that I mean paying a tithe.
[You have gained a temporary 'Lesser blessing of light', your attack is increased by 5% lasting a day.]
Ah~ That's the stuff, power right to my veins, when I do some missions for the church and my reputation reaches 50, I'll get this level of blessing for free. Those were the days, where I could have the pope bless all of my items daily, since I made a girl the pope and then, like a slave, had her follow me every day.
Those were the days~ So nice, so easy, so lvl 42-ish... I really need to talk about my lvl 42 run actually, later, let's say... When I get 'Crown of endless might' I'll put in a few small parts of that story "What are you scheming now?"
"You know pope girl?" I asked.
"Of course, anyone should know about pope girl, she was the ideal slave." He said with greed and craving for daily highest-class blessings, and slightly for the nice body.
"What if we had a pope girl," I said, already making the guy excited "For every single religion!"
These words schocked the guy, causing him to be impressed by my ambition.
I went back to the guild, and started to look through quests "Let's see..."
What I wanted wasn't a mount, but items for my only party member "I work best with a long sword, I'm someone who uses my stats as best as possible, pure stats are my jam."
The stats are Agility, strength, vitality, magic and intelligence. If he likes pure stats then I'm going to need a more primal D-rank.
[Brutal bull hunt
I want as many Brutal bull gall bladders as possible, I'm in the middle of a great discovery!
D-rank only
7300g per gallbladder]
Brutal bulls are focused on strength, if I get a heart and a dick I'll be able to make a permanent stat boosting potion 'Bull buffet', and the other items made with it give strength too.
"This one!" I told to the guild girl "Me want dis one, me in D-rank party, accept now."
A little bit of sweat came from her forehead, remembering that I was lvl 23 (Faked) "Yes, yes Urial, you can take the quest." She quickly registered the quest as a party quest.
I gave her a fake smile as I left, no reason to antagonize her.
I got on the Wind wolf again, and put the guy on it too.
We traveled to another plains biome a bit west, there bulls were bit apart from eachother.
I wasn't really worried, all I had to do was pick up a stone, and give a good curve ball to the eye!
[Curve shot!]
...
[Combo=5]
And another since it didn't die.
[Combo=11]
Normally it would take 4 stones at the same place, the eye, to kill it, but now I'm lvl 2 with a bunch of boosts on me. I even made sure the sharp end of the stone would hit.
First I started butchering for the gall bladder, then the heart and phallus. And finally, but not least, the bones and hide were fashioned into a few throwing knives for me, and a long sword for the guy. Then the left overs became 6 rings.
Then I tried to kill a bull, so uhh. let's show you the magic of my knife.
[Flying bull;
Soaring bull; The weapon flies through the air, getting faster and faster.
Brutal strike; In weak spots, damage is increased by 20%.]
So, the knife was lodged completely into the skull.
With that corpse, I started to make a few more rings, 4 for him, and 3 to sell. Then I started to make some clothes with the hide, like gloves, and pants, even a jacket. There was a lot of hide, and it was all temporary anyways, so I didn't need to do a speed tanning.
All the items had the same effects by the way, all resulting, in a total of +18 strength and +2 agility!
That was enough for now, in the end I killed 42 bulls, 2 of the stones went into the guy's items, and all the rest went into my throwing knives. Making it 4 stones per knife, since I only wanted 10 knives.
I chose to make the two effects stronger, both of them.
[Flying bull;
Soaring bull; The weapon flies through the air, getting faster and faster. (x2)
Brutal strike; In weak spots, damage is increased by 30%.]
This great power let it kill any Brutal bull in a single strike.
Also, the magic stones were cut in a way to support each other, or else they would fight each other and cause the overall effects to drop, even if you do 4 stones instead of 1.
Those were the items done, so I went back and showed my greatness to the guild girl "That's 42 gall bladers... 7300 times 10 is 73000 that times 4 is 292000g then that plus 14600, that's... 306600g."
"Can I have the skill crystal catalog?" I asked, wondering if a proper skill cell could be made.
"Sure, it isn't much anyways."
I was given the cataloge, and I already saw a good combo 'Basic slash' and 'Basic cut', one worked for free, and the other worked for a bit of stamina. Most people couldn't do what I am going to do with these two though.
"That'll be 236000g." She said an outragious price, but that's just what skill crystals were.
I paid peacefully and put both into my 'skill slots', which were infinite.
I also saw 'Basic mana slash' and 'Basic swordmanship mastery', that would make a quad-cell.
"Come on, to the market." I called out to the guy, who I was think about what to name "Hey, how about we change your name to Asmodeus?"
The man paused "You can do that?"
"Of course I can, I bet you were bound by your body's old name, unable to get a good one." I said in a matter of fact way.
"Of course, I would kill for a name better than 'Granite'." There seemed to be some seething anger in his words "What do I need to do?"
"Give me your adventurer liscense."
He gave it to me without more hesistation, and as such, I poured mana into my finger, and started to change the recorded information. "Now, all that you need to do is call yourself Asmodeus from now on, and when every one you've talked to for 5 days recognizes you as 'Asmodeus', your status will change if you want it too."
He took his liscense back "That's surprisingly easy..."
"Name's are just words which others assign to us, I figured this fact out because I never said my name and called myself 'The Moon' for an entire playthrough."
"-And with horrifying connotations."
I pulled the guy with me to the market and started to haggle for myriads of herbs, about 17 types, bringing my balance tp 3462g.
Then I bought a mortar and pestle + water + bekers + corks. Throwing me into a state of poverty, only 123g.
We went with my wolf back to Wind wolf avenue, I put down the trashy alchemy lab, I made a stone stove quickly, and then showed off my creation "Uhhh, I can't use this."
To be expected, most alchemists only use their beginner bonus alchemy set, which is pretty high quality for this small kingdom like this.
"Don't worry I'll do it, but you better get that class change soon, because if you can't even use a makeshift-budget alchemy set, standardized by the skill lord discord-channel. Costing only about 1000g."
I started to grind up different herbs at different amounts of fine-ness while boiling water in the bekers, how? Because I used magic, this time with a different language "Hilg'tsetdst'gsa'ahdhsad'd (Mana, heed my call, create flames which sustain themselves)"
Then he mixed the water and herbs with mana while shaking the bekers.
[Created 'Unknown potion', what do you wish to name it?]
"Speedy boi potion."
['Speedy boi potion' of 'Highest'-quality created! Gain a 20% increase in speed and +5 agility after consumption.]
['Lesser strength potion' of 'Highest'-quality created! Gain a +10 to strength after consumption.]
Now, all he had to do was throw a Brutal bull phallus into water, and let it stew for about 10 minutes, for 15 bekers, then he threw herbs into it too, then caused it all to dissolve into the water with mana, including the phallus.
He did this twice, and drunk 10 potions himself.
[Your strength has increased by 10! your strength is now 14!]
The same thing happened to Asmodeus.
Asmodeus was more of a, how do I say this, warrior/knight, using a long sword, he was 100% not suited for alchemy or crafting. I hope that soon, we meet an alchemist player, because npc alchemists are generally constricted by which potion they made. Unlike me who could consistantly create high to highest quality potions, with makeshift alchemy sets.
If I got the highest quality of make-shift alchemy set I could consistantly get 'Zenith' quality potions, two levels above 'Highest', with 'Peak' inbetween.
The leftover 10 potions were for the 2nd semi-member of the party 'Imperium', the first being Asmodeus, and only 'real' players, except those who gave good skills/skill trees, were allowed to join.
-Written in the 6th of december, 2022.