C150: The Slap
Alt Title Teaser: Skills
Overall Word count = 1833 on 10/17/2024.
Just an FYI that I am regularly updating the status page from the aux page with all the skills Axel gains or uses for the first time.
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[Titan Strength: Call upon the power of the earth to flow through your body and empower it for a moment]
[Dungeon Creation obtained, allowing you to create entire environments of a specific type nearly instantly]
[Magic Core Creation obtained, allowing you to create a centralized magic core that can grant magic powers to anyone or thing implanted with it while keeping it loyal to you]
[Life Creation obtained: Gaia was the creator of humans and other races before resting for a long time and eventually being sealed away in the dungeon. The human life created through this skill would be very primitive unless given a magic core to enhance their minds and share ideas for faster growth.]
[Greater Earth manipulation gained. This has been Integrated into Magic manipulation and shared with all known magic types for higher efficiency in them all]
[Greater Will obtained. This is the conceptualization of Gaia's own willpower which was how all monster remained loyal to it through their cores]
[Earthly Connection obtained: As the conceptualized being of earth and life, Gaia was filled with abundant lifeforce, granting superb healing ability whilst in contact with the ground (Shoes allowed). This has been combined with high speed regeneration to create Robust Body ]
[Robust Body: A crystallization of unprecedented regeneration modified to effectively strengthen the host, Axel Gram, the more they are injured.]
[Reality Marble-Pillars of the Village: Using parts of Gaia's body, The Village of Origin has been effectively enhanced with a greater Structural Support. This means that The reality marble will be much harder to break or shatter by any outside influence as long as it is released while on the ground.]
[Heaven's Feel: As Gaia was the first god, she was able to communicate with the world much better than any other god. You now possess this ability and can estimate what any world you may visit does in accordance with any action you take.]
[Raphael] finally ends the list of abilities. Originally it had begun by stating each and every ability Gaia had but Axel waved it off and told it to come back after it had merged these abilities into more usable functions as well as merged them into his pre-existing abilities but it seems that most were not too compatible with his original skills. That is how something like [Titan Strength] came about even though it appears similar to his [War Gods Strike]
[Titan Strength] is actually a longer lasting boost to his power than just a single strike and is linked to his innate strength rather than some divine fragment powerup boost.
Of course these skills are independent of the actual stats he gained from absorbing Gaia's body. He could have had tons more skills but Gaia's soul is concentrated inside its head that is now Alaba's headrest. That portion would only enhance his magic, even more than it already has. He might gain new spells but it would likely be just more earth based as its techniques were actually quite underwhelming but Axel recognizes that very things are actually a threat to him at this point.
Unlike his 'father', he technically does not have to weaken his foe to absorb them as his power works in two states. There is its variant state that he was 'born' with, this works as the wisp/energy field mode where he releases an invisible gas of devouring energy to rapidly consume anything inside while the second is the Rimuru original that allows his body to splash outward to envelope the target.
But since he is so strong, he has no reason to not test out his overwhelming amount of powers when he feels like it. This is why he is pleasantly surprised that to now release his reality marble, he only has to say the first 2 lines of it or create another version of it that is longer but he can choose it as long as he remains honest to himself and the ideals that the Noble Phantasm follows.
He has no plans for this at the moment as he can't think of any other threats at the moment except that creature in the desert that went underground.
'I should check on that soon but there is more important things to check up on'
He uses his overwhelming agility to create a sonic boom as he moves towards where the west group of city rescuers are.
While he travels there, a cloaked figure stands a long distance away drinking something from a plastic cup with a straw. It had been observing its prey for a while now. It was quite surprised by what it had witnessed but that surprise was only in terms of novelty and not an impression of power.
SLUUUUURRRRPPP
A loud slurping sound is heard as the figure finishes their drink. Though this does reveal that their hands are pure white as if no blood flows through them. That or some other secret encases the figure.
He crushes the cup as a small burst of power evaporates it while he comments, "Well, that was fun, but he is still far too weak to kill. Come on, stop holding back, just relish in the destruction, Escape from me right now"
"Grrrr" The figure shakes his head as he comments with a dual voice, "Shut up/Fuck you" He taps the center of his chest with annoyance as he comments, "arent you supposed to make me perfect or was that some sort of bullshit? Why am I still Bipolar? It's been so long already" He suddenly raises his head as he spots Axel heading toward him. Energy surrounds his feet as he disappears in a dark blurry flash.
Axel changed his direction of movement due to the feeling he received from one of his new skills. He arrives at the edge of a forest with a confused look on his face. The small bit of power released by the mysterious figure had alerted the world and as such [Heaven's feel] was activated but Axel does not know the source of the disturbance.
He briefly meditates to use his magic senses to sense something but whatever it was, was too minute (my-newt) and had left. He can only remain wary of whatever this was and pay attention to [Heaven's Feel] for any other disturbances like this. Though he does get a strange feeling that he has already experienced the weird aura left over here. Not actual magic particles or anything but something closer to a soul wavelength. He is already quite sensitive to them but nothing comes to mind immediately about this.
He returns to his original path and heads to where the Ganesha familia is along with many citizens and Raikou.
After some time of wandering, he soon arrives at the makeshift camp, The Ganesha familia really outdid themselves. It's actually hard to call this a 'makeshift camp' because of how organized all the tents are and how they had somehow set up multiple tents to somehow make a larger tent.
What he didn't fully expect was that the hephaestus familia is also here with Welf and Daisy.
This is where Axel finds Ganesha and the smithing goddess herself, with Raikou and the others who have been pondering their next move when he walks in.
Axel raises his hand nonchalantly and says, "Yo", Ganesha and hephaestus are confused at who he is or how he got past the guards. Since he is still halfway through modifying Vitch's face into his own, it's a mix of beauty and handsome but since it's a mix of both, it's neither since he is misshapen and not symmetrical.
Yet even with these changes, Raikou still recognizes him now that she knows that he put in the 'requisition order' for Vitch's body. She hugs him, possessively of course. Getting a lovely helping of booba, Axel soon separates from the lovable mommy as he turns to the still confused Ganesha.
"Dungeon is down. Is there any news from the other camps?" he asks and Ganesha calls out with a mix of certainty and uncertainty, "I am Ganesha, Is that you Axel?"
Axel chuckles a bit as he decides to copy the god and states, "I am Axel Gram, the titan who slayed a titan."
The two gods sweat drop at the claim but soon calms down as he is used to the random stuff he has done by now. Meanwhile the smith goddess pitches a question
"Have you also become a god when we didn't expect it?" hephaestus asks
"No, I had to get rid of mine since it was holding me back, but that is also why I look different since I technically died and had to get a new body. What better than the very immortal that attacked Orario and was the cause of the dungeon being released."
"So you're not human?"
"Never was, but does that matter, I'm on the side of humans and Orario."
Axel slinks his arm over Welf's shoulder with a toothy grin on his face when he says that. Welf and Daisy are deep in thought as they both are pondering the map in the middle of the tent. They had been cataloging where all the damages had been done and surmised where all the other directional camps had been set up by their friends. The two of them are in unison as they read the multiple reports that Ganesha's people and Hephaestus' have been providing while the gods themselves have been uncertain of how to proceed.
While Axel takes in all the information he could, he soon finds something interesting in his territory that makes his chill grin from before turn a bit malicious. Welf and the others are stumped by his bloodthirsty aura as they snap out of their thoughts and look at him as Axel steps away from the table. He waves his hand and Ouranos along with his black cloaked servant appear in the tent.
Axel then winds up his hand as far back as he can, twisting his waist before he undoes the winding motion towards the other side. But as he does this, the cloaked Alaya appears before him as all 3 have been still in the underground part of the city when he unleashed his reality marble and moved all the citizens left inside.
The open palm connects with the spirit of humanity as she is sent flying out of the tent, ripping a hole inside it. "You had this a long time coming, bitch"
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Alt Title: New Skills, Possible Threats, Meeting with Family and Friends
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