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Chapter 13: Attack On The National Weapon Museum
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"Soooooo… where are we going?" C2 said as he put his hands behind his head.
"Ca-can we split up?" Yeonha fumbled out as she accidentally bit her tongue.
"Nope! You pulled my name, and now you're stuck with me." He said with a maniacal grin on his face.
"I'm not even going to try arguing with you on this…" She said putting her hand on her forehead and shaking her head. "Come along then. I'm going to be inspecting some of my family businesses…" Yeonha said as she started to walk along only to be pulled back by C2.
"Nuh-uh. Not happening missy. This trip is meant for relaxation, not work." He said as he pulled her under his arm and started carrying her like one would with a disobedient child.
"HEY! LET ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!" Yeaonha shouted to no avail as this was the reaction C2 had hoped to get out of her, and of course, no one would come to help her out as C2 had used the [Fourth] to make people ignore what they were doing, effectively rendering them invisible.
"Hahahah! No. We're going to an arcade, and you'll have fun. That's final." He said in a tone typically reserved for disobedient children who don't want to do something.
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{PoV: Yoo Yeonha(Sugar Mommy)}
Yeonha didn't know how she ended up in this situation, yet here she was, forced to play air hockey with C2. But worst of all she was losing badly… very badly. C2 already had a score of eight while she was sitting at a fat zero.
"How are you so good at this?" Yeonha said, frustration clear in her voice.
"Properly has something to do with the fact that I process information faster than any other being in this universe." She could just feel the smugness oozing of him as he said this.
"If I consider that even just my base processing speed is way faster than most people could even hope to achieve… so at my maximum, I can process information at about 218,750x* of an average person. For now, that is." Once again, Yeonha was shocked by something C2 had said so casually you'd think he was talking about the weather.
"Can you please for once talk about something normal?" She said holding her forehead already feeling the migraine coming.
"Something normal huh?" C2 said closing his eyes and spinning his finger in a circle.[Insert Faruzan Thinking GIF if I remember.]
'Cute' Yeonha thought to herself before snapping out of it. 'Bad Yeonha. You already have Jonghak. And you don't want to become like that bitch Chae Nayun…'
"AHA!" She heard C2 shout dramatically as he snapped his fingers.
"I'll just tell you about my life motto as it's something that would be considered normal!" He said as he took Yeonha's hand causing her to blush up a storm. C2 pulled her along as they made their way to the café down the street from the Arcade.
"My motto is a rather simple one. 'Live In Life'. That's it… well, not entirely, the full quote is: 'You've Got To Live In Life, Leave The Dying To The Dead*'." She listened silently as C2 took a sip of tea.
"Now, for an analysis of this, courtesy of yours truly." Yeonha was confused by how arrogant C2 looked as he was pointing at himself.
"We can ignore most of the first part and focus on the 'Live In Life' part. This refers to living your life to its fullest and enjoying every moment of existence, but it also means that one should take a more active approach to life rather than a passive one. Take challenges, try something you've always wanted to do, experience life, and take risks, it boils down to these points." With a small smile, he explained to her. "'Leave The Dying To The Dead' the meaning behind this is rather simple actually. It just means to stop worrying about the negative consequences of every little action you take, as well as to stop thinking about one's mortality, we all have our time after all. There is no reason to think about an inevitability after all." With another sip of his tea, he continued.
"So, all in all, this saying, quote, motto, etc… means that you have to embrace the life you have and live it to its fullest. Now that I think about it this motto is quite similar to the Latin saying 'Memento Mori*' which translates roughly to 'Remember That You Will Die'. Although they are quite similar they convey a different meaning, even if the message is somewhat the same." She listened intently as C2 spoke, she was glad that he was talking about something sort of normal.
"You see…" C2 said, taking another sip of tea. "While the message is mostly the same 'Memento Mori' puts more emphasis on contemplating mortality than living, 'Live In Life' puts way more meaning behind embracing life and truly living." Pausing for a moment he stared at Yeonha.
"What?" She asked somewhat nervously.
"Do you have any questions?" He smiled.
"No, I understand what you mean." She said with a small smile creeping its way onto her face.
"Ah, good because it seems we have a situation here…" He said making her very confused.
"What do yo-" However before she could finish her question a monster that looked like a very badly drawn mix of a Wolf, a Komodo Dragon, and a Cameleon came crashing through the window the next table over. The creature* locked eyes with her and she froze up in surprise, it then tried to lunge at her. Yes, tried, before it could even leap into the air its head had been completely flattened by C2 stomping it to the ground.
"Welp, we can talk later Yeonha, right now is not the best time." She heard C2 say as she snapped out of her daze. "Wait!" She called out but he was already gone.
{PoV: C2(A True Caster frfr)}
Red lines darted across his body increasing his physical stats by 200%, boosting his Strength to High-Intermediate: Grade 1 from Low-Intermediate: Grade 4, his Stamina to High-Intermediate: Grade 1 from Low-Intermediate: Grade 5, and finally his Speed from Mid-Intermediate: Grade 4 to Low-High: Grade 8. This means he could body more than 99% of all Heroes in the world only taking physical strength into account.
C2 had cast his original spell called [Crest Of Mana] which allowed him to boost his body to an absurd degree compared to every other body enhancement spell. For this spell, he had taken inspiration from [Mana Burst] and [Crest Of The Stars] from Fate. The lines that appeared on his body were not his [Mana Citcuits] as only a fool would expose them like that, no, they were just veins which he used as a guide for the mana. [Crest Of Mana] did have a slight side effect that he for the life of him couldn't figure out why it happened, it increased his arrogance to a higher degree.
"Now the question is violence or not… who am I kidding violence is always the answer. If it didn't work you're just not using enough…" He mumbled to himself as he grabbed a nearby (very much alive)Lizardman and used it like a club to clobber two other Lizardmen. Looking at the three(now very dead) Lizardmen C2 ran along causing more havoc by killing monsters in absurd ways. For example, he took an alive Horned-Wolf by the head and threw it fast enough at a Giant Black Bear that it pierced through the bear's stomach.
C2 had now finally arrived at his destination the [National Weapons Museum], and he was just in time to see Kim Hajin blow off the Djinns arm. Appearing behind the Djinn C2 thrust his hand threw its back, the surrounding people, Kim Suho and Kim Hajin looked in shock as C2's arm came out of the Djinn's chest with its beating heart now in C2's hand.
"This bastard sure did a number on ya huh Suho?" C2 said with a smirk as he took his arm out of the now very very dead Djinn.
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Fact #4:
[Status Board]. A phenomenon of unknown origin. Many speculate that it may have been a gift from God to help humanity survive the calamities that befell and will befall us. Others say it was a natural evolution Humans went through after the [Outcall], these people claim that Monsters don't have them to back this theory, the only problem is that we do not know whether Monsters have [Status Boards] or not. In actuality, the [Status Board] is just an ingrained part of the wider Multiverse of this 'Story'. Nothing more, nothing less.
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*Note 1: I got the number 218,750x by thinking that he, at a bare minimum, without the use of magic and such, would process things 7x faster than a normal human. Then we take 「Thought Acceleration」 which allows him to boost his thinking to a maximum of 10x(for now). Now we add that he has a total of 5 Rooms open with 「Memory Partition 」 I.e 5^5. So then we add it together like this 7*10*5^5, thus getting 218,750x a normal human.
*Note 2: While these are song lyrics from the fan song [Live In Life] by Will Stetson the thought put behind the meaning in the context of this fanfic is purely my own.
*Note 3: Memento Mori is one of the only sayings I've ever taken to heart. I still remember the day I read it, 16/06/2015 when I was eight. Yes, I did read it when I was eight. It has, to this day, left a great impact on me as I grasped my mortality at a rather young age. I have not cried once at any funeral I've been to since then as I knew they would die someday, I was(and still am) grateful for the time I had with them.
*Note 4: Wolfameleon(Bad name I know) is a Mid-Low Rank Grade 6 monster. It's honestly a biological abomination that should cease to exist.
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Stats Before:
[Strength{Low-Intermediate: Grade 4} - 9.53]
[Stamina{Low-Intermediate: Grade 5} - 9.374]
[Speed{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 4} - 14.99]
[Perception{High(Mid)-Intermediate: Grade 3(1)} - 24.28(16.413+7.6)]
[Vitality{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 4} - 14.884]
[Magic Power{High-Intermediate: Grade 1} - 31.2(22.966+4+3)]
Stats After:
(Natural Increases Labeled as ↑0.001)
[Strength{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 10} - 11.96]↑2.43
[Stamina{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 9} - 12.4]↑3.026
[Speed{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 2} - 15.7]↑0.71
[Perception{High(Mid)-Intermediate: Grade 3(1)} - 24.28(16.68+7.6)]↑0.268
[Vitality{Mid-Intermediate: Grade 4} - 16.424](+4 When stomach is full)↑1.54
[Magic Power{Low(High)-High(Intermediate): Grade 10(3)} - 31.2(24.2+4+3)]↑1.234
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Well, well, well, look who it is… ME! I fucking did it, my dear readers! I wrote a chapter! Come on give me some applause! It only required me to half finish the prologue of another Fanfic lol. I ain't posting it anytime soon tho as it will just be a sort of side project for when I can't think of anything for this one.
Now then something to note: One, I will not guarantee any upload schedule as I have found it stresses me the fuck out. And two, I will add Rank and Grade to his stats from now on as I have a solid structure for it now. For example, his boosted stats in this chapter reach around the Low-7-C Tier(VsWiki) with just his physical strength.
Other than I don't have a lot to say. I may start uploading that other fanfic I was working on when I have a decent amount of chapters made.
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