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Chapter 2 - Abandoned Temple

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Inside a forest, there is a ruined building, reminisent of a church, its walls damaged and are covered in vegetation and growth, a bright light from the sun shines through the broken roof and hits a man, sitting on a stone throne with his eyes closed, the man has honeysuckle colored hair and porcelain skin and extremely handsome face which makes the sence look very nice to the eyes.

"Mmmm..." As the man begins to wake up, seemingly uncomfortable, he yawns and looks around himself in a daze, his eyelashes hold the same color as his hair, his iris owns a tidal color and his pupils are completely white unlike a normal human's one

"Man, Im really unlucky, I didnt get any high tier bloodline in my three spins and those that I got arent fit for combat,Im really fucked"

As he wakes up from his daze and looks to his front, he realizes that there are people infront of him, 30 woman, albout half his size with butterfly like red wings, red cheeks, hair completely black, completely bright red eyes, all of them standing near each other and staring straight at his face without any sigins of action.

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 Your starting camp has been chosen.

 Abandoned Temple of a Self Proclaimed god

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"A temple? Im not a very religious person though, I wonder what kind of person had a high enough ego to start a cult with himself as the god, well I guess it would be reasonable for there to be a throne in this temple if that person thought so highly for himself, regardless, its convenient for me, so are these my starter helpers?" he says and look at them, they are still staring straight at his face without any facial movement... as he stares back at them, wondering to himself what kind of creature they are, with those red wings and eyes, a blue screen pops up infront of the man

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 Species: Demonic blood pixial

 Name: ____

 Cruel -

  (Breaks the enemeys determination more easily)

 Strating helper -

(Maximum loyalty, temporary)

 Level: 1

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 Stat distribution rate (out of 100)

Physical: 13 - Strength(2) Toughness(2) Stamina(8)

 Energy: 62 - Capacity(40) Output(12) Regen (10)

 Intellegence: 25 - Comprehension(15) Instinct(10)

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 Abillities

 Blood maniplution(Low, lvl 1 [innate]),

 Energy sense(Low, lvl 1 [innate]),

 Air maneuver(Middle, lvl 5 [innate]), 

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"Hoh, intersting, those pixials be loyal to me? their origin and title seem to imply that not... fortunely the title starter helper will make sure they will listen to me, for now atleast" he says and looks away from the screen back to the pixals, all of them still staring blankly at his face.

"Hello" he said, hoping for a response. "are you people alive? Im going to need help from you to procced in this world, from what I assume."

"AH!!" It seems that one of them realised that they look extremely dumb just standing like that, she starts to call all the other of her kind, still blankly staring at the man.

"Aiaa!"

"Awawawawawa"

"Ame ame ame ame"

They stop staring at him, and instand decide to make akward noises as they look around themself as if they have just been born.

"So, you the one at the front, Im gonna ask some questions and you will answer them, do you know anything about the current situation?"

"Umm.. no? no! I mean YES!, we have been summoned to help master survive and develop his camp!"

"Very good. do you happen to have any other information other than that?"

He says as he look at the pixal intently

"Ummm... I have general knowledge that my species should... I think..?"

"Can you go into more details?" the man responded

"Ahh.. ummm.. like... flying well? and um.. that we feed on negtive feelings of other living being..."

"Okay okay you can stop for now" I should first focus on figuring out what is going on around me "Alright! I NEED YOU TO LISTEN, since there are only 30 of you, I want 20 of you to go around and scout the area, and the rest of you to stay here and protect this building and me, the one with short hair at the front will distribute all of you between those will stay and go, then distribute those who will go into teams of 4 each and each team will go to a diffrent diraction." As I let them decide the teams between themself, they start discussing their roles with the pixal in the front choose to them, I look back into the blue screen to see if there is more information to understand my sitiuation better

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 Tutorial Quest!

 Exploration:

 Oh? look at this! you have just been summoned and dont know what to do? no problem just listen to me!

currently you only have a handfull of starter helpers, so you should obviously start exploring! 

 Explore at least 80% of your starter area: 0%/80%

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Suddenly a quest appeared "Hmmm, I wonder if there is a map feature, I dont think the pixals are capable of making maps...

Are there any other quests, or a menu screen? i suppose the most common way yo do that will be... Status..!"

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 Species: Nhillitiy of Corruption 

 (Cowardly Vampire, Sadistic Incubai, Protected Elf)

 Name: Ryphael Remnant

 Incarnation of Corruption - 

 (Corrupted beings see you in great favor from the first meeting, evil beings see you in slight favor from the first meeting)

 Level: 1

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 Stat distribution rate (out of 100)

Physical: 35- Strength(10)Toughness(10)Stamina(15)

Energy: 35 - Capacity(20) Output(10) Regen(10)

Intellegence: 30 - Comprehension(25) Instinct(5)

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 Abillities

CHARM(Highest, lvl MAX [innate]),

Energy absorbrion(Low, lvl 1 [innate]),

 Origin(Species)

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"Good thing that it works.. but even though I expected it Im still disappointed that I didnt get any combat skills... but what the deal with this charm skill?" Ryphael voices as he taps the skill on the floating board

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 CHARM(Highest, lvl MAX [innate])

Charm is the power to more easily attract other beings with similar sense of astethic sexually.

CHARM is the power that goes beyond its shackled counterpart, not bound by the sense of astethic or the general diffrence in view, it would make its user beautiful and attractive to all consicnce beings that have the luck to look at them, its innate form is the most effective since the power becomes passive, it can also work activly, giving any postive feedback to what is effected by the power will give the subject great delight and a sense of fulfilment, a negative feedback will result in a depressing feeling and a sense of emptiness

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"I mean its cool and all, but can I use it to seduce my enemy when I get attacked? from how its worded I might actually be able to.." He countines to fiddle with the status screen for a good while and eventully gets a notifaction for the quest compeltion

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 Congratioulations! completed quest Exploration

 Rewards: 1x beginner chest

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Suddenly a slightly damged wooden chest appeared on the Ryphael's lap as he sit on the throne, he immediately starts openning the chest.

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 Beginner chest 1x opened!

 10x wood 

 10x food

 100x gold coins

 rewards distributed to inventory

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"Thats good and all but how do you even measure food and wood numerically?" As he continues contemplate the psudo-leader of the pixals begin to enter the temple

"Master! we have surveyed the area around the temple!"

"Good, countinue to report."

"Yes! we are surrounded by a large forest, discovered a large river to our east in an area with less trees, a small mountain to our north which is devoid on trees near its base, and haven't found anything other than more trees to our south and west"

"Alright, I need you to call everyone to come back and wait infront of the temple for me ." He orders the pixal, as she leaves the temple Ryphael looks back into the screen again, this time a new prompt pops up

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 Tutorial Quest!

  New Summon:

Are you not satasfied with only you starter helpers? than just summon new minions!

 Summon a new unit: 0/1

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"Even though everything here seems like a game, Its a game with my life on the line, I hope I wont need any 'awakening' or something like that to realize it in a dangerous sitiuation, I have no combat abillities at most I will be able to seduce my enemy but what then? It might be okay if its a girl but there is no way I will take the risk and use it on a man, I would rather die than that."

He grumbles to himself while viewing the new screen

 

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 Summon units:

 Blood pixal: 5x wood 5x food

 Bloody dryad: 10x wood 10x food

 Novice vampire: 10x wood 10x food

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 Bloody elf druid: LOCKED

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"Its disappointing to see my limited options, alright, I will jusy choose novice vampire and see the result."

As Ryphael taps on the unit he wanted to summon, A bright light start to in the middle of the temple, so he blockes his eyes in a hurry. "Argh.. damit i hate bright lights..."

Ryphael looks back as the light starts to fade, and where the light originated from there now stands a woman with sliver long hair, red eyes with vertical pupils and pale white skin, standing there, copying from the pixals, staring at his face without any other movement, this time he decided to give her some time so he could look at her status.

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 Species: Novice Vampire

 Name: -

 Level : 1

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Physical: 20 - Strength(5) Toughness(5) Stamina(10)

Energy: 25 - Capacity(5) Output(5) Regen(10)

Intellegence: 50 - Comprehension(45) Instinct(5)

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 Abillities

Blood manipulation(Middle, lvl 1 [innate]),

Blood magic(Middle, lvl 1),

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"Well, I think its time for you to wake up, Miss." Ryphael says as he stands up from his stone throne and starts walking outside the temple.

"Ah.. y- yes..!" The vampire lady said weakly as Ryphael continues to walk to the exit

"yes? alright, follow me outside."

"Y-YES SIR!" the vampire, this time shouts loudly, seemingly embarrassed,'It seems that my summons reaction is weird due to my charm abillity, I should try to expirement it to understand better, since its my only viable abillity.'

"Okay! vampire girl, I want you to teach all the pixals how to better their blood manipulation, and... ah, yes and if you know how to use it in combat teach them that too." Ryphael commands the vampire as he looks over all the 30 pixals, at the large forest that covers all around the temple

"Whoa! so many pixals! since you said they can use blood manipulation they must be blood pixals... wait, nonono could they be demonic blood pixals!"

"Yes, you are right, oh and figure out a way to cut down trees, maybe create an axe from blood? that would be good since it could also be used as a weapon, Im gonna go back to the temple, call me when there is significant progress." 

"Ah? b-but..."

I ignore Astrella and go back to my throne, so I could look at the rewards for summoning a new unit and take a nap because I genuinly feel mentally tired from all of this sudden events, after all I was just finishing a 12 hours game session before being suddenly wisked away, hmmm, I wonder how other people are doing?

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