Rebirth of True Madness
Chapter 4: Chapter Four - Training, Time skip, and a Fiery Fight.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterIt's a beautiful night outside. The moon is shining. The cricket's are chirping. On night's like these. Kids like me. Should be waking the fuck up. But fuck that. I'm too comfy.
I just shift in the bed that Caroline made for me. It was a bunk bed with my mother right above me. I was on the lowest bunk as they didn't want to risk me falling out of bed from too far and getting hurt too badly. Jokes on them. I have ghoul skin and immense regen. That's when I notice the sound of hooves clopping on the ground on a different side of the room.
"When in the hell is Chara gonna wake up? She's been out for days now. I'm starting to get as worried as you are, Rhythm." WAIT WHAT?!
I shoot up almost bonking my head and quickly turn, moving a bit so I can poke my head out of the bunkbed and look at Deck seeing him in the room. It has more furnishings than just the beds like last time. I can see a round table, a few chairs, and other things all made of wood, treated wood, moss, cloth, cotton, and other things with deck sitting on one of the chairs with my mother pacing back and fourth while looking at Deck. Neither notice I'm awake yet as they're looking away from me along with the fact that the bunk beds and imbedded in the walls.
"You are NOT as worried as I am. She should've woken up DAYS ago! While I am glad you care enough to switch your binaural schedule to a nocturnal one to at least give me SOMEONE to talk to that doesn't just say 'She'll be alright, I've seen it before' because I DOUBT that damn Dryad actually has. I mean what in Luna's name actually could've caused my daughter to stay asleep for 3 DAYS unless she's sick?! Even then she should've been awake at SOME times! Not including that the Dryad won't show us around until AFTER she wakes up! What's the point of it?! I can't even remember my earliest years, but is that Dryad saying she will?! There are so damn many questions I have for both YOU AND Caroline but I'm too worried right now to care about that!" Holy fuck I've been asleep for 3 DAYS?! Damn... I've made my mother worry for me. Well, I don't feel like making her worry any longer.
I think about just getting out of the bunk when I get a 'good' idea. "Hey, Caroline, need a stick, half an inch wide and about 2 feet long. I have an idea." I have said stick and the face of Caroline appear and she gives me a wink. She's on board.
I levitate the stick and carefully position it by my mother's butt but out of her and Deck's sight. This is gonna be good. Then once she stops and has her back facing deck and is within reach of him... *THWACK* "OW!" she spins around and looks at Deck with murder in her eyes "Did you just smack my ass?" Deck, knowing that he'll probably be killed should he attempt to speak and is able to spot the stick, quickly shakes his head and points towards the stick I'm levitating. My mother follows his finger and see's the aura and then sees a glow coming from the bunk I'm in. She gasps and rushes over to me and notices me giggling, when she does she picks me up and hugs me.
"Chara! You're awake! I was getting worried! I know you're using your magic, but... I'm going to have SUCH a hard time with you. Already using your magic to hit my butt with a stick, you nearly made me kill Deck! You'll be such a trouble maker, I can see it in your eyes." Damn right I will be a trouble maker! I'm going to be causing all kinds of hell, MY WAY! Evil fuckers that can't be pinned with a crime due to wealth and such? DEAD! Idiotic nobles who need to be brought down a peg or two? Lets see how they like being gender swapped! And if they wanted to be, then lets try them being turned into something they despise! Well, a race they despise. Lots more things as well!
She sets me down after that and Caroline appears in the room, but... she isn't looking as good as she did a few days ago. "Good night everyone. I see Chara is finally awake. I knew that they stayed under for so long due to using their magic as much as they did. As you said that she's very early on it, correct? Miss Rhythm?" My mother gives Caroline a slight glare but nods and Caroline continues talking " Also, I do not appreciate someone talking badly about me behind my back. I could hear you as my hearing is far better than yours. " That makes my mother look a little more angry. " I am fine with people who make requests as I want to serve you 3. As what happened to you is just down right horrid. However, I do NOT approve of complaining to a stupid degree. Such as some 'brat' that complains if their stew doesn't have the exact number of mushrooms they prefer, or something of similar stupidity." That actually got my Mother to laugh as she had, had to deal with people like that in the past.
Little tid bit of info here, ponies, inspite normally taking until around the age of 2 and a half to 4 months for a ponies magic to be developed enough for even the most basic things outside of magical surges, I'm using magic at 1 month, 1 week and 5 days. That's quite early, though, that could easily be explained away VIA me being an Alicorn so I don't have to worry about anyone getting suspicious, well, I hope so anyways. As after all, the only one that can disprove that is the Solar Tyrant and I doubt she'd want to give a lecture about it while hunting me down.
While my mother is distracted I look at my stats and see I've leveled up a few times.
Chara NightStalker
Level 5
HP 900/900
MP - 25300/25300
Points to spend = 20
STR - 66
DEX - 51
VIT - 30
INT - 900
WIS - 700
CHA - 10
LUK - 7
JESUS CHRIST MY INT AND WIS STATS ARE FUCKING INSANELY HIGH AND SO IS MY DAMN MANA! Just... damn... Though, my LUK and CHA are the worst of them all. With VIT being the next in line. I'm normally fine with playing a glass cannon in video games, but here? I need to be able to TAKE and DEAL damage. But that can wait until later. As right now, STEALTH is gonna be key. I'm pretty sure I have the HP of a level 20. But the MP of a level 500 if not higher... sheesh. Lets look a little more in depth about the stats now that it's time for training and such."
I tap on the strength and look at what exactly it does and continue to do so for each stat. But before I can see it there is a rather important bit that shows up.
All stats can and do tie into each other, while you can specialize into one or two stats such as INT and WIS you'll need the CHA to actually be able to charm a person into having sex for example. But in order to win and argument over something logical you'll only need INT and WIS. You'll receive the perks and skills you should've had at the start at the end of this list.
STR or Strength! This stat affects just how strong you are, obviously, but it also helps with other things such as intimidation with physical prowess when combined with CHA and INT and WIS, or throwing heavier weapons when combined with DEX. Strength can do a wide variety of things, including but not limited to: Allow you to use heavier weapons without magical aid and even eventually dual wield 2 handed weapons and far larger things and deal more damage with melee weapons, fists, and allows you to draw back bows and crossbow's easier and allows you to use stronger ones as well. Increases the range at which you can throw throwing weapons ( Lighter throwing weapons aren't as affected as much by this such as shuriken's ) and can allow you to throw heavier throwing weapons ( Such as Axes ) and allows you to eventually throw far larger things such as boulders and more if your strength is great enough. It also affects just how much and how many items you can carry in your quick inventory ( A 'Hot bar' essentially ), which allows you to quickly summon items without having to open up your menu without using magic means. This also allows you to carry more on your person without the use of said abilities should you be attempting to stay hidden. There are more applications of strength that you'll need to find out, but a little hint for a few things is that DEX and STR are very helpful on the mobility front.
DEX or Dexterity! This stat affects multiple things involving mobility, speed, stealth, and reaction time but also affects just how much damage you do with ranged weapons and throwing weapons along with some melee weapons as well and can directly affect critical chance and damage when using any ranged weapon, throwing weapon, or any weapon from stealth but also affects the accuracy of all attacks. The higher your DEX is the faster you can move and the higher you can jump but STR also ties into this, as what good is being nimble if you can barely hold yourself up? DEX is mainly needed to increase your speed and such while STR is needed as well but to a much lesser extent sans with jumping. Increasing your DEX can gain you special mobility and stealth skills and boosts when invested and trained into. IE: The more DEX you have, the faster and easier you can move and the higher you can jump and the less it costs and the farther you can fall without taking damage and the faster your reaction time's are, the better you can fly and the less it costs, and the better you can use throwing and ranged weapons and it's easier to sneak around undetected and the better you can use stealth but you need VIT and STR to allow you to boost certain aspects higher and faster once you reach a specific point. There are more applications than just mentioned here, try to figure out the rest!
VIT or Vitality! This is important as it affects your health, how quickly you regenerate health, how quickly you get tired as having the capability to do a large jump is one thing, being able to do it over and over in a short time period is something else but having a higher DEX stat can reduce this to a MAJOR degree, STR, to a lesser one except in certain aspects. How much you have to eat in correlation with STR and how long you can stay awake without rest without having reduced stats, and much more aspects.
INT or Intelligence / intellect affects your capability to learn and how well you can use magic in correlation with WIS. It increases the speed you gain EXP when combined with WIS, it can increase the amount of skill points you gain from leveling up when combined with WIS, increases the amount of skill points you gain from reading books that boost your skills when combined with WIS, increases the power of spells ( Good and possibly bad aspects ), it can affect how much mana most spells cost to an extent, it also affects how much mana you have but not as much as WIS it also slightly boosts your mana regen but not nearly as much as WIS. This stat, in combination with WIS and CHA can affect how a conversation goes more often then not. With exceptions. This stat also affects one of the most important skills, crafting. The higher your intellect and knowledge about the item you want to craft and the subject(s) and object(s) needed to craft it. The better the item will or can be. Such as: A shuriken needing knowledge on Metallurgy and Blacksmithing / Metal Working along with knowing tricks with an Anvil / forge / grind stone / whet stone / ect for bonuses with crafting that type of item. This doesn't mean that the best of blacksmith's don't make a mistake from time to time. There are more things that are affected by Intelligence, you'll need to find them out.
WIS or Wisdom is another important stat as it directly affects the amount of MANA you have the most. It also affects how quickly you can regenerate your mana in combination with INT. It also can affect how a conversation will go when combined with CHA and INT. It can also affect how much mana certain spells cost but to a far, far lesser extent than INT. There are other aspects about this stat you'll need to find out yourself, but as they say 'Knowledge, or INT in this case, is knowing a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom, is not putting it in a fruit Salad'.
CHA or Charisma is another important stat. As it can affect far more than you'd think. Other than charming people into doing as you want them to or persuading them into it or lying your way outta trouble. It can help you with affecting certain shop's prices where bargaining can occur and can increase the amount of money and or items you get from quests. It can also cause group affects to anyone in your party or even people around you, giving those in your party extra resolve and boosting their stats far higher than they normally would be so long as they're in a certain range and to a lesser extent if they're outside of it but still in the party and far more aspects. NOTE! Charisma's effects can change and reduce or increase beyond what it should be depending on your mind set, morals, and many other factors. Every single stat can affect this one due to just how diverse it is. There are many, MANY uses for this stat. You'll have to figure them out yourself. But for one example: It can allow you to get people to open up about themselves far sooner, and faster than they normally would with a plethora of factors effecting this.
LUK or Luck. Luck! The stat that many tend to ignore can be quite the helper! It can boost your non stealth critical hit chance of all weapons and attacks, even the ones boosted by DEX. It can of course increase the chances of getting loot from scavenging, looting, killing enemies, and much more! It can affect your chance for getting better gear from quest rewards in combination with CHA and can affect your chances of far more things than you can fathom! However! Perks gained by getting this stat increased enough are chosen by a 'wheel of fortune' of which, the perks you get are completely random, but are always good. There are so many uses for this stat that you'll have to figure them all out yourself! But once you get this stat high enough...
Stat perks! Stat perks are gained VIA leveling up your stats to certain levels in an increment of 50 points per perk until level 500. Then 100 points per perk until level 1000. Then 200 points per perk until level 5000. Then 500 points per perk until level 50000 and it goes on further and further and further and it will be explained IF you manage to reach level 50000.
Stat perk(s) Strength: Earth Pony Strength - Earth Ponies are known to be on the stronger side of things when it comes to the pony races. You gain up to double damage with all melee weapons and up to 25-70% more damage with thrown weapons and have all strength requirements for melee weapons and ranged weapons reduced by up to 5%
Stat perk(s) Dexterity: Thestral's Agility - You're a thestral aren't ya? Commonly called Bat Ponies they have the same wings as a Bat does. Meaning, while they're usually slightly slower than Pegasi in terms of pure speed due to how their wings work. They're far more Agile in the Air and they tend to have far better hand eye coordination than any other pony species and are known warriors with unrelentingly fast speeds of attack and undetectable as assassins / thieves. Up to a 50% increase in movement speed on the ground and a 30% increase to flight speed and double flight agility with up to a 30% increase to sneaking capability and 15% faster attack speed with up to a 50% increase to throwing weapons damage and a 3% increased chance to crit with throwing weapons and up to a 5% lower chance to mess up with crafting something that requires precision.
Stat perk(s) Intelligence / Intellect: Alicorn's Rage Rank 4. You're an Alicorn, and when they get angry, bad shit happens, up to 9X magic attack damage the more angry, upset, ect you get and a chance a 'Rage Shift' can occur when Immensely angry. A Rage Shift is what happens when a Unicorn, Kirin, ect gets too angry and it becomes far past a blind rage. For unicorns their mane and tail become nothing but fire and their eyes turn bright red and they gain an immense boost, for Alicorn's they become Monstrous versions of themselves and gain a far larger boost. Up to 3X to their strength and up to 20X for their magic damage (instead of 9X for unicorns when they rage shift) and up to 20X faster mana regen and the more angry they are the longer it lasts and stronger it is. However, this can prevent certain skills from being used such as crafting and tends to scare all in the vicinity and sometimes prevents talking to people normally due to them being afraid of you and after it's over depending on how much mana you used during the rage shift and how long you were in it, it could cause you to collapse from exhaustion or even completely incapacitate you and, in extreme situations, put you in an essential coma or even kill you should you use over 10X the mana your body could actually of used and regened when NOT in a rage shift. Staying in it for a long time but not using much mana will just make you somewhat tired, however. The higher the rank of Unicorn's Rage, Alicorn's rage, and further increases the chances of a rage shift when immensely angry unless held back by will and even then there will be obvious signs it wants to activate visible. This can be activated without an active source of rage by getting too angry but will only give up to 1.5X the boost to strength and up to a 3X boost to magic damage and mana regen and will not be active for very long unless more anger is added on top which can rather quickly increase the boosts and time it will last until it reaches standard rage limits. Also note: This perk can directly influence magical surges, increasing their power dramatically, which, if you're still young and experiencing them, you should warn someone if you can feel a magic surge is about to occur and they should get a VERY far distance away from you before it activates as it can produce extremely bad results.
Stat perk(s) Wisdom: Alicorn's Wisdom, Rank 2. You're a wise Alicorn with much history, knowledge, and advice. You gain 5X faster mana regen and the advice you give tends to have a greater effect upon those who receive it.
Oh my fucking god, just HOW much more OP can I GET?! The answer? A lot. A whole, mother, fucking, lot. But the question is... just how fucking powerful is Celestia then?! If I've ALREADY got THESE good a perks. Then I'm just about being FORCED or am being SUGGESTED HEAVILY to use the magic route. Well fuck that! I'm not about to fucking abuse the fuck outta this unless I absolutely have to. As if I do, then I'll be stuck as the classic wizard, a complete, glass, cannon role! Fuck. That. I'm keeping the stats, sure. But I'll be training the FUCK outta STR, DEX, VIT, CHA, and LUK if I can. But I doubt I can train luck naturally and CHA involves people. Dear lord... what would my mother think of this? I mean if she knew I was essentially a goddess already... she might have a heart attack. I don't want to do that to her.
For thinking of others before yourself, you've gained +1 CHA! Great. Thanks.
I had just finished looking at the menu when my mother turns back around from talking with Caroline and bends down and picks me up. Then of which she holds me near her pretty damn large breasts, about EE's now as they're bigger than when I was a few weeks younger and... ah damnit not this again.
After THAT is over, she sets me down and I start to walk around and look around the room. Deck floats over to me and looking at that damn face of his kinda makes me laugh, as he got the worse end of the stick by and far as he lacks a dick now more than likely and is ugly as hell due to him being a Poltergeist. Though, if he's powerful enough to blast Celestia down for the count then he HAS to pack a severe punch. Observe.
Deck - Level 97
Race: Alpha Stormling / Alpha Poltergeist.
Used to be your old team's sniper back in the zone. Was always a damn good shot and is quite a force to be reckoned with should he get his Modified PSG1 back. Is well trained by you in finding, spotting, and avoiding Anomalies and is used to watching your damn ass when you go in gun's a blazing.
Current Thoughts: Damn her, she gets to literally be THAT close to those giant tits and I can't be, even though they're on a fucking Bipedal horse I still find them hot! Well, shit. Guess Deck has the hots for my mom. Gonna have to make sure if they do get together that I make SURE he doesn't think of using her, even though he probably won't. That'll have to wait until I can talk though or if Caroline can provide a paper and pen so I can write to deck to communicate or use the mana manipulation hands.
Heh, time to get to see this damn place! Caroline opens the doors and asks us to head on out, so, we do. When we do we see the living room is pretty damn big! Huge 7 meter wide and long and about 10-15 meter high living room! I mean Jesus Christ! There is... wait a minute.
Along the sides of the room are branches sticking out creating essential 'shelves' that are thick and strong enough for someone to STAND ON and are about 3 feet wide along with some unnaturally flat surfaces for the 'shelves' from one shelf to another. Really Caroline? A parkour course? Well, it'll help until I can fly. For now though I can't do that. I need to wait.
The Living room is also furnished with sofa's, couches, tables, chairs, ect. All made out of wood and cotton. Rather than Wood and Moss like before. Very nice. I can also see a few things such as two chimney's for fires and such with a metal or stone cooking spit above. I can see that Caroline has been improving. Though, I think this house, and a few other things, are the last bit of stuff she'll actually really be doing for us sans for keeping the place clean, watching over us when we sleep, providing me with targets, and other things. But gathering food? Hunting and Fishing? Crafting / making things for us? Stuff like that? Uh, yeah, no. That isn't happening no more I bet. I bet she's already stocked the pantry full of food to give us a head start and has more than likely planted a garden or two for us and will regulate the weather, keep anomalies from appearing here, keep the place clean, and other such things. Possibly even give us any artifacts that appear here, but other than those sorts of things, nope. I wonder though? If the ZONE is here, what kinds of wacky and crazy ass artifacts could it produce due to all the damn magic? Heh, that'll be something to find out later.
After of course touring through the kitchen, which is also around the same as the living room with a pretty large amount of space but most of it was empty, probably meant for things like oven's and such but we lack those right now. Gonna have to wait a while.
Then we go into the center of the tree with a large spiral staircase going up and down made of the same turquoise glass with a beam of turquoise light going up through the dead center of the stair case all the way to the top of the tree. Caroline suggested we head to the bottom first. Then work our way up. So as we walk down we see many doors and rooms. But the thing about this is, each of them has a unique symbol above them, the skyrim magic symbols In order when going down: Enchanting, Restoration, Alteration, Illusion, Conjuration, then Destruction. Then further down I see another door with the draconic letters for 'Thu'um' or shout. Then a door with the daedric spelling for 'Daedra Summoning'. Then... oh lord of mercy Caroline went all out. I see 4 pictures above this next door. Each of them being a pony with a kagune coming out of the correct areas. facing towards each other in a square going from Top left to bottom left to bottom right to top right in this order: Bikaku, Rinkaku, Koukaku, Ukaku. Then, we come upon the 2nd to last door. This door... are you fucking serious Caroline? I mean, I get the reasons for the others, BUT REALLY?! A fucking Dragon Claw door?! Damn, this'll be interesting. Though, looking at it, I can understand why, it's just above the Conjuration and Daedric doors. With Conjuration being above Daedric and there must be a system on the inside for stuff to fall down to behind this door. Guess it makes sense then, as the Dragon Claw Door's weren't meant to keep stuff OUT, they were MEANT to keep stuff IN. The final door has a picture of the One Eyed Owl's mask and Kakuja. God damnit, did she put a fucking stone version of the damn eye of magnus at the fucking top of this place?! If she did I'm going to be both insanely happy to have something like that to use against celestia as the eye of magnus but also insanely cautious, as while I've both lived in the world and played the game, I can only speculate as to what the eye of magnus truly is. But my guess is some sort of...'Mana Battery' that should it grow unstable, like a chemical reaction... BOOM! So even if it's made of stone rather than metal, I'll have an essential fission nuke to toss at that damn Solar Tyrant to hurt her really fucking bad as opposed to an oversized fusion nuke. As I'm pretty sure a nuke to your face is gonna do a lot of damage.
Afterward we start to ascend the tree and find all kinds of gardens, building locations, and such on the larger branches that sprouted out. After we reach the top... no, it isn't an eye of magnus, it's a GIANT eye of magnus styled sphere with a room inside it WITH an essential eye of magnus INSIDE it with some Apocrytha style book cases and doors and such. This is getting insane with the damn skyrim references. I mean really!
So wait, it's the Zone, THEN Skyrim. Alright, Alright, but when is it gonna take effect fully? As I've already seen the stuff involving the magic, which, I will be training with and learning as I'm not about to pass that up, but I still won't be using it too much as I'm going Ninja / Assassin / Thief and such damnit.
I just hope it has all of the MODDED Skyrim spells I'm thinking of. And I also hope that the gamers abilities actually can put spells into categories then into categories for those and further and further, along with 'Favorite' spells and categories for said favorites and then more categories for further organization. As if it has all the Modded Skyrim spells AND enchantments that I'd want... then, well, this'll be fucking awesome. As while I won't be using the spells THAT much, sans a few, I WILL be using enchanting a LOT. I mean a WHOLE FUCKING LOT! If they've got runes as well, that'll work perfectly to my idea's.
After all that, we head back down and find out there are quite a few more rooms across the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors as those are the living spaces. Plenty of storage, plenty of room, plenty of area's to hide, and a plenty of spots to train.
All of us head outside and notice that Caroline isn't quite looking the best. Her skin is paler, her eyes are duller, her hair is greyer then earlier, and all around looks awful.
"I'm afraid that, by creating this place and doing all of what I've done with it, I've worn myself out a significant degree. I will need quite a long time of rest to recover. About 30 years. I'll still be able to do some things to help you all, of course. But I won't be doing anything large. Controlling the weather, making sure the place stays clean, and other small things, including keeping those anomalous things out. But I will need to merge with the tree to both heal, and help keep it alive. Thus of which, I'm sorry for leaving abruptly, But, for now, it is goodbye. I will see you all in 30 years. I know that look, Chara, I know you might miss me, but I will be back. You all are on your own mostly now. I've done what I can with what power I could spare. I hope it is enough. As gathering food, cooking it, and such, you'll need to do yourself now. I hope that when I return, the Solar Tyrant is near defeat if not already dealt with. Goodbye, and good luck."Caroline?! NOOOOOO! She sinks into the earth and smiles, looking like she's slowly sinking in liquid she holds up her hand and... oh my god that fucking terminator reference! Ha!
I look over to deck. Seeing him looking rather sad from what I can tell. My mother also looks kinda sad. But not as much. After that, we head back inside and my mother orders deck to take her sword and go hunting while she tends to things around here, as she knows how to survive like this.
Transistion = 6 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days later----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This has been, the most boring 6 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days, EVER! I'm just starting to get control of my bladder and bowels and today is the 3rd day I've actually had SOLID food and not milk as I've finally gotten all my teeth in, and lemme tell ya, it hurts. For these last 6 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days I've ALWAYS had my mother's eye on me. So I haven't been able to do jack shit for training sans for observe! Which I managed to level up to level 13 by the 6 month mark. But jesus Christ that took FOREVER! Though. Now I'm finally able to walk, run, and jump PROPERLY and not a damn wobbly little irritating gait. Which I managed to get my stats up for STR, DEX, and VIT up by 3, 7, and 4 points respectively as that was a little bit irritating to do. But of which, at 2-4 months is when pony foals are supposed to start babbling but since I haven't for this long my mother is starting to think I'm mute. Today marks the day I'm going to be 'taught' to read and write. Deck decided to 'take the time' to 'teach' me how to read and write because my mother had to head out and scout out if there was any wild boars near the house for food and she needed to practice with the spear she now has. Fun fact, Radiation is actually like magic in this world. That gave deck a hell of a shock. But he realized it made sense. So of which, now was the time to finally start. My mother left some children's books, an alphabet book, and a small stack of papers and about 10 quills for us.
I take a quill, dip it in ink, and carefully use it to write, which, surprisingly, I get it first try.'So deck, what's up? Well, besides the ceiling. Also, this last 6 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days, has been BORING AS FUCK! I'm surprised I haven't DIED from being bored! I mean really! This is getting stupid! At least now I'm learning to control my bladder and bowels so I won't HAVE to use these damn cloth diapers anymore as I hate these things, I prefer Disposables by a long shot. I swear as soon as I get access to the damn chaos auction I am GETTING some damn LARGE and THICK disposable diapers. Heh, I remember that face of yours when you found out I wore pretty big diapers underneath my damn suit, and used them, a lot, before changing. It was priceless.'
"Well Chara, the sky, the clouds, and god knows what else. Wasn't really boring for Me and Rhythm as it's been fucking hectic in some regards. Though, Chara, I thought we said we would NEVER talk about that ever again. Keep your damn diapers to yourself. At least I've been able to figure out how to become fully visible and gain a lower half for legs and even a damn dick though I doubt it works and shift my face so I'm not as fucking ugly as a damn poltergeist." Kinda figured that much, asshole. Hang on a sec... what if I don't NEED a quill and ink to write?
I focus on my magic and In-vision a screen with a classic QWERTY keyboard for a keyboard with a size of font 14 Verdana font and started typing, it worked... somewhat, as instead of a standard typing it was like a damn old manual type writer as the keys were insanely hard to press so I had to use my magic to make a few hands to do it for me. I can see deck's jaw drop, hard, at this.'Well hey! It's easier and better than wasting good paper! Besides, I'll take about 10 sheets of paper and do some drawing on them and some such things. Also-' I summon another hand and flip him the bird '- That was for all the time you've been a dick recently. Now, we need to focus. I need to train while you need to be around to catch me if I fall. Move the books and have them set around so it LOOKS like I've messed with them and I'll do some stuff with the papers to get this to work.' He agrees and I'm just about to start practicing parkour, but before I do I infuse a good amount of mana into the screen to keep it there for a while. I find the lowest shelf that is sticking out of the living room. Which is only about 3 inches off the ground. Kinda high of a step for me. But I assume it will shift as I get older and taller.
I'm already at a whole 3ft 5 inches roughly in height but that is due to how ponies in this world grow. As rather than experiencing many small growth spurts a year like humans do and a larger or possibly smaller ( height wise ) one during puberty, ponies in this world go through between 5-7 at the most and have usually pretty linear and steady growth otherwise. Rarely has it been less than 5 or more than 7 growth spurts but there are exceptions. Least that's what I've picked up from my mother while she and Deck were talking. The first is supposed to occur at 3 months of age. The next occurs at 1 year old. The next occurs at around 3-5 years old. Then the next occurs at about 7-10 and 9-12 years of age as two can occur in this time period but it doesn't always happen. The next one is a ponies puberty occurring always at around 12-14 years old and at times there can be a 2nd one now as well, leading to the 7th. But rarely ponies have gone through up to 2 more from 13-17. Which, the one's that are the largest are usually the 3 month one, the 1 year old and 3-5 year old one, and the one(s) around the time of puberty as those are the ones that tend to involve bone and muscle, mental capacity, ect, growth the most. Which, I was already through TWO of them and I'm only fucking 7 months and 12 days old! I mean come on! I was early for the first, AND early for the 2nd. Just how fucking tall am I going to be?! I swear if I'm a fucking 11 ft tall amazon esque woman then jesus Christ this is gonna be both awesome and annoying until I get modification leveled up as I do NOT want to deal with having to duck or even crouch or almost lie flat on my stomach to get places. As while that size would be AMAZING for a warrior or intimidation, for me? It ain't gonna cut it as I'm going for STEALTH and being any taller than 7ft means unless I use invisibility it'll be pretty damn hard for me to hide, and even then I'd prefer no more than 6ft. I think I'll go for 5ft 8 inches. then I retain SOME height, but I'm still short enough to fit into a lot of spaces. I'd say that's a good middle ground. Though, how BIG I'll be is another thing entirely. As while having huge breasts would of course be nice, having them TOO large could cause problems with movement and fighting. Not something that I'd want though, I could easily learn to work around them. Still.... a whole 11ft tall.... I'd have fucking ii cup minimal!
I manage to step onto the shelf and feel it get lowered slightly and notice the other shelves adjust accordingly. This is good. Then I see the one I'm standing on get elongated a bit to give me more running room for a start off. Well, here we go!
I start to run which I've been able to get to be just about like a standard run for an adult already and push off with my hooves jumping into the air but as soon as I attempt to land on the first shelf and my hooves slip and I slide across it and fall off. *Thump* 'OW!... My damn face! That hurt!' I can already feel the ghoul regen has already fixed it. But OW that always hurts...
Due to ghoul regen, your Vitality went up 1 point!
Merci, Connard. ( Thank you, Asshole ) You're welcome!buuwha?! You CANNOT be serious right now. Ugh... deal with the apparently sentient abilities later. Focus on figuring out how in the fuck to do parkour with hooves now. Wait a minute..
'Alright, fuck, now I feel stupid. I haven't even fucking trained basic parkour in this body yet. So of COURSE I can't do jack shit. Alright, basic work first. Since I can't... roll. I'll need to attempt it anyways. So it's back to work I guess.I continue practicing except I use mana to construct basic walls and such for me to train with to learn how to parkour in this body. After a short while my dex increases again and I gain a new skill.
Passive Skill obtained! Parkour!
Like moving fast and far without flight or magic? This is the way to go! Every level in this skill gives a few benefits but gives stronger benefits the higher your DEX stat. Increases jump height by a small amount. Increases reaction time involving movement and dodging ect. Slightly Decreases the amount of stamina it takes to sprint, jump, ect and also helps with climbing objects faster. Can also help with wall running and wall jumping and other sorts of movement based things. Huh, neat. Didn't think that THAT'D work.
I continue practicing until I get the feeling it's a good idea to stop. So I quickly dispel the screen and the shelves return to normal and I look like I'm reading one of the children's books and I hear the front door open and my mother steps in. a bit beaten and bruised, but has some blood on her and... oh god that look in her eyes and face.
Deck quickly walks over to her and asks what the hell happened and why she looks like she's just seen a ghost. All we get from her is 'Large leap' 'Two heads' 'On fire' 'Tore a boar into shreds'... and then she passes out.
Fuck. A chimera. A mother, fucking, CHIMERA! Those damn fuckers take one HELL of a lot of punishment to take down! 4-6 seconds of firing with my PKM with standard ammo. That's around 40-60 fucking shots! As even though I'm shooting them with enough power to compare to a fucking lower power 338 lapua magnum, it requires up to 10-15X more than the 50.BMG when it's used to bring them down, but the thing is, the BMG? Only kills them in 4 shots if it uses a unique type of bullet that pierces armor AND has an incendiary and explosive core. So when that fucking thing punches into a mutant, it'll both pierce into them, then fucking explode with flaming shrapnel INSIDE the damn mutant. And since the Chimera can take more than 3 of those and keep on fucking living they REALLY aren't easy to kill! I've killed a fucking Psuedogiant with just 4 shots from a 357 magnum when I first arrived in the zone and accidently stumbled upon it's area and not a soul believed me until I fucking SHOWED them I wasn't lying. But when I decided to go Chimera hunting with the 357 as, hey! I killed a Psuedogiant with it, which, they tended to use more powerful guns to bring those down, so I think I'm good! I barely fucking escaped alive! I shot that damn Chimera with nearly all 180 rounds of 357 I was packing and it was barely starting to limp! Most of those shots were in the sides right where their vitals are! Those damn thing's hide's are tougher than all hell! I had to take the Machete I was carrying on me at the time and fucking jump ON TOP of the damn Chimera and STAB the damn thing OVER and OVER until it FINALLY died! It. Wasn't. Worth. It. Their hides and meat may be valuable, But: A, I wasted all my ammo I had and had to spent a good amount to get more, B, I broke my Machete killing the damn thing, and C, I made more money hunting mercs, bandits, duty, and the occasional stalker idiotic enough to attack the Freedom faction. While I never fully approved of either Duty, or Freedom. I preferred Freedom over Duty. As at least Freedom understood why the zone was a good thing to have around. Even if the C-Conscious was killed and the zone was continuing to expand for every person who made it into the direct center, it would've taken a long damn time for it to cover even more parts of Russia. I was there after Degtyarev was there and long before as well. Least I got some parts of that shit hole I liked to call home in this world as well. We haven't found any artifacts yet but that's more than likely because none of us have gone looking because of needing to survive. But this sounds like a damn FIRE based Chimera. Like a Pyrogeist.
Deck managed to catch my mother before she hit the ground and is suddenly looking scared as hell and I can't blame 'em. Even after getting Deck, Storm, AND Branch on my side with all of our equipment it was still a dangerous undertaking to fight a Chimera. But, we only had guns and such then. Deck now is an over-powered poltergeist and I've got my magic, if we play our cards right, we'll win.
Deck quickly sets her on a couch and uses a new form of transport he developed over the course of time he called 'Lightning Dash' to get to where he had stored our old teams gear. It essentially allows him to move at around the speed of a lightning bolt and move with the same dimensions of one. Which is, he can fit through a keyhole should he try.
I see him bolt back with the items in his possession and he loads the PKM and puts it near me. Then he takes a quill and ink and quickly writes a note on a piece of paper and I grab my PKM with my magic and hold myself up with a flat 2ft x2ft pane of magic. Both me and him rocket out the door and we start heading for the main gate. Time to hunt a fucking Chimera!
Quest! The Big, The UGLY, the Deadly.
Objective(s): Kill the (Zone) Chimera.
Reward(s): 3X (Zone)Chimera Pelt, 12 (Zone)Chimera Claws, 20 (Zone)Chimera meat, ???, ???, ???, ???
Bonus Objective(s): Use Observe on the Chimera.
Bonus Reward: ???
Well that's an interesting one. Bonus Objectives. Wonder if any future quests will have that? I'll look to see if my older quests have them. Though, why is it (Zone) like that? Wait wait wait, don't fucking tell me NORMAL chimera's exist here! As in, the ones from mythology?! Jesus Chirst! they'll be easier to kill at ranged more than likely, but FAR harder in CQC due to that damn snake tail of theirs! As I was thinking about that we had already gotten to the main gate and I was starting to fly up on my platform to survey the area. That's when I see it.
Standing at about 6ft tall on all 4's about 50 meters away from the wall. With both of it's heads neck deep into a scorched boar carcass, is the fucking Chimera. It LOOKS like it's on fire, but it actually seems to have some sort of aura around it. Must be mutated even further than usual as normal chimera's don't have that. The grass in a 5 meter radius around it seems to catch fire or at least is attempting to. Being put out before it can burn too much and not catching again, I'm guessing it's thanks to Caroline.
Deck flew up here and is latched onto the top of the main gate and is charging a pretty damn powerful bolt of electricity, but I doubt that's gonna work. Chimera hides are actually somewhat electric resistant, and if this thing is even further mutated than those fuckers.... well, then again, he managed to completely knock out Celestia, which, is impressive and she's probably a hell of a lot harder to knock out than a standard Animal around the size of a Chimera. But we aren't dealing with that, we're dealing with a Chimera that happens to have an Aura of heat and fire coming out of it and is a good bit bigger than a standard Chimera. But, it's even been said that some Chimera's have launched bolts of lightning so fire isn't really that far fetched. This is one such occasion I will be abusing my insanely high magic power.
I summon a screen and keyboard and quickly type 'Attack on my signal' and show it to Deck. He nods and waits. I summon more than a few spears with my magic and start to spin them for greater power. I use observe on the Chimera while doing this and.. well..
Heat Chimera....? Level 173.
A Chimera from The Zone that has been around for a while and has mutated far beyond the standard Chimera or even the once seen Lightning Chimera. This Chimera produces are Aura of heat around it similar to a Burner Anomaly, but it has the same effects as the boiler on it's insides.
Effects: Retardant skin. This Chimera's skin is more fire and electric retardant / resistant. A whole 75% damage reduction from these sources if the hide isn't punctured and heat and up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit could have complete nullification.
Boiling blood. Causes the blood to boil and in turn due to the mutations causes a few interesting things. It increases muscle and bone growth and increases internal temperature and increases the thickness and strength of the hide to handle this thus also granting it a 40% higher damage reduction from physical or physical magical attacks and increases max health by 300%.
Aura of Heat. Causes everything in a radius from the center of the body to burn, scorch, catch on fire, or even melt. The closer it is, the stronger the heat. This heat has strange effects on anything it comes into contact with and also slows any sort of physical or magical attack coming at it as much as 70% depending on velocity and weight and material and will completely absorb any sort of fire based attacks and both heal the chimera and temporarily increase it's strength. Any sort of electric attacks do not heal it but actually cause greater damage if they can get past the Retardant skin as the boiling blood is an extremely good conductor.
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Alright... so if I pierce the hide and make it bleed, deck can fucking fry the damn thing. Though... what does that ???? do to it and what's with the name? Ah well, LETS DO THIS!
A little lesson here. Having a projectile spin does multiple things. It keeps it from tumbling, it allows greater accuracy, and especially in the case of these spears, which are slim Tri edged spiral bladed spears with a whole 1ft and 3 inch long blade, will increase penetration by a long shot. These spears weigh a good bit. About 8 pounds as I condensed the magic a bit to make it heavier. Even with the aura reducing projectile speed, this HAS to do a lot of damage.
I quickly type what I know while the spears are still getting up to the fastest spin and show deck. He nods and prepares to give the fucker hell.
I spin the spears at a good rate. About 500RPM and then prepare to launch them. Aim... and... FIRE!
I launch the spears at about 500 FPS to attempt to account for the aura as I'm assuming it's like oobleck so launching them at any higher speed is NOT a good idea. It still slows them down by about 55% and they pierce about 3-4 inches into the chimera where they hit but a few still miss.
The Chimera roars in pain as it pulls it's head out of the carcass and quickly the right side head ( Of it's body, not of my perspective ) locks onto me and deck and leaps towards us to close the distance faster. It's already 40 meters away now. I make the spears disappear and that leaves multiple wounds gushing blood which deck quickly takes advantage of. *ZAP* damnit it's still moving! It's not even limping! I cover my ears with my magic and bring my PKM to bear as I won't have enough time to power up the spears. I aim and let loose hell.
My PKM was modified in another way. I had it changed so it could hold a larger ammo belt kinda like what Zulu did to his PKM but I had it so it could hold 300 rounds. Heavy as hell but with the exosuit it was a lot easier to hold. So if we had to go on ammo conservation I could actually not use the ammo backpack and just have it on the gun and have the ammo backpack be turned into an actual oversized backpack. It helped at times with trips as I asked Nitro and Cardan to help with applying Titanium grinds to the ammo backpack to both increase it's structural strength and decrease the chances of it being broken and to allow it to hold ammo easier but that was mostly because they were the only people in the zone with the tools to do it. Otherwise, I would've done it myself.
The Chimera takes about 1/5 of a second then leaps again, only crossing about half the distance this time, probably due to just how wounded it was from that alone. I'm still pelting it with rounds and deck's charging up another blast of lightning, the bullets are barely doing anything until I land a shot in one of the heads eyes and that roar of pain gives deck enough time to finish charging and discharge the bolt. The chimera was covered in a hell of a lot more blood even in less than 1 and a quarter seconds. This zap just about enough to bring it down. But then something fucking insane happened.
The Chimera began to glow, a flaming orangish red. Then suddenly, it disintegrated, and nothing but ash remained, then, suddenly, like a phoenix rising from ashes, the chimera rose from it's ashes, the wounds were healed, and it turned into a fucking living fire / lava Chimera that looks a HELL of a lot better than a normal Chimera, as it isn't just like a color scheme change. It's like it is SUPPOSED to be a 2 headed Chimera but with a Humanoid and a Monstrous head instead of a Tiger and Goat head like what an actual Chimera would have. I use observe to figure out what the fuck happened.
Phoenix Chimera. Level 497.
A freshly rebirthed Phoenix Chimera. This reaction was caused by a unknown artifact that merged with the Chimera when it was born called 'Phoenix Down' which caused this mutation to occur and even without the exposure to it from an outside source any Chimera's with this effect will always produce offspring that have the Artifact inside them thus resulting in more phoenix Chimera's. The phoenix Chimera is fully sentient and Sapient but when close to rebirth can cause it to look like the Feral Heat Chimera which is NOT sentient and sapient.
Mood: Currently pretty angry but thinks that you may've attacked due to it looking like one of it's Feral Brethren as mistakes like that happens quite often.
Effects: Living Lava. Completely immune to all Fire and Electrical based attacks until it is close to it's rebirth period and has a 400% increase to all damage dealt with fire attacks and absorbs and even heals from lava and fire damage and can even redirect electricity back at it's opponents due to this and all it's attacks inflict fire damage and can melt through nearly any metal like iron or steel with said attacks unless it's a reflected lightning attack and can cause a MASSIVE fire AOE attack at the cost of decreasing the time until it requires another rebirth by 5 years.
Fresh-Reborn ( temporary perk ). Increases fire damage by an additional 150% until this wears off but reduces the cost in terms of years of the AOE attack by half as well until it wears off.
Fire elemental. Able to control if it burns what it walks on or not. More often then not it only leaves whatever it walks on slightly warm or, if angry, burnt into ash. It also gets an additional boost to fire damage and is able to shift it's shape slightly and gets more powerful the more heat sources are nearby and even can fully manipulate fire and lava.
Side note: Their fur is extraordinarily soft and just perfectly warm.
'Oh holy shit... we fucked up. Big time. We pissed something off that I doubt even CELESTIA would want to piss off. Also, really soft fur? Damn. That has to be nice. Lucky fuckers.'
"Alright, for the love of the elemental's WHY did you attack me?! If it was due to a mistake of thinking I was one of my lesser brethren I understand that as we're nigh unable to be told apart when my species is close to rebirth. However, if it was because you were hunting for the 'Artifact' I hold inside me, I WILL BURN YOU INTO NOTHING BUT ASHES!" Well... we better tread lightly.
I quickly pull up a screen and start typing 'We had better be careful. As this thing is FAR beyond us. While I have insanely high stats in intellect and wisdom, which, isn't a surprise, I'm only level 5 and YOU'RE only level 97 and THIS THING is level 497! It is literally one of the most dangerous things we could encounter right now! Well, sans Celestia / the Solar Tyrant herself, and... wait a sec, where the hell did it go?
I look around and then notice the orange light coming from my left. I slowly turn my head to see... "AAAAAAAHHHHH!"May've been so damn high pitched that it hurt, but yes, I did just scream. As did Deck when he saw them and my platform failed and all of us were sent tumbling to the ground, that is I thought we would've. Deck started his floating / flying before he hit the ground and I.... was caught by something really, really, and I mean REALLY fucking soft. I see an orange glow. Dear lord they're the softest thing ever... GAH! I need to..... oh it's so comfy...soft... warm...fur.... I really wan....zzzz
I fell asleep on top of the Phoenix Chimera, what I woke up to later, was a hell of a sight to behold.