<~> Chapter 77Looking around I saw a vat look in a lot of people's eyes. For a moment I thought that it was a look of trauma before I realized what they were actually doing. They were cheg their status now that he fight was over. I stared off into spad did the same.
[Your party has coordio defeat a horde of Shadow Stalkers][Your party has defeated a Shadow Horror][Your party has defeated thirteen Demon Mimics]
It was iing to see how some of the entries were grouped as 'a horde' and other entries listed specifiumbers. The fact that there were thirteen mimics among the monsters killed was a bit ing. That meant there was the possibility that some of them escaped.
[Your level has increased from level 34 to Level 38][Novice Magian has increased from level 1 to level 8]
[Swordsmanship has increased from level 35 to level 37][Light Magic has increased from level 5 to level 9][Light Manipution has increased from level 4 to level 8]
[Learned Entment Magic Spell Fme Imbue][Learned Light Magic Spell Light Burst][Learned Enha Magic Spell Bde Waltz][Learned Enha Magic Spell Focused Perception]
[You have acquired the title Demon Hunter]
Lots of levels, I was especially happy to get a few levels in my new magian css. Lets what these new spells do.
[Fme Imbue - Entment Magic Spell]Imbue a on or object with fire magic making it apply fire damage when it hits ehe strength of the entment is increased by Magic Ford the duration of the entment is increased by Magitrol. Larger ons and objects takes a proportionally rger amount of magic to ent. Fme Imbue be applied to others' ons but the wielder of the oermines who is sidered an enemy for the purposes of this spell. The effects of objects imbued with fire vary.
This looks like a really useful spell. It would make my melee attacks more powerful based on my Magic Forbsp;It sounds like I could also do things like imbue Torien's arrows with fire if I wanted as well. I'll have to test this spell out ter and see what different things it do. I assume I got this spell when my [Novice Magian] css leveled up but it's pretty iing that I got an entment spell even though the css doesn't say anything about that.
[Light Burst - Light Magic Spell]Create a rge burst of light in an area. It be targeted at an enemy or object, or cast off yourself. Brightness and damage is affected by Magic Force. Color, iy, and number of pulses is affected by Magitrol. Light Burst only directly damage dark and shadow aligned enemies.
This might have been useful when I was actually fighting those shadow type enemies earlier. Actually, this has simir w to [Light Orb] so I probably could have used that spell in that fight too. Well... I robably better off doing what I did anyway. Using magid a sword would probably be better but I did use that enha spell I got mid fight. Lets read that o...
[Bde Waltz - Enha Magic Spell]This spell temporarily imbues your body with magic that improves your speed, finesse, and swordsmanship skill while wielding a sword. This spell reserves a portion of your mana and drains your mana as upkeep as long as it stays in effect. A rger portion of your mana be reserved for stronger effects up to a cap.
This is the defihe spell that I used mid fight. I didn't bother reading the spell before using it but I clearly remember how it felt when I cast it. It didn't seem to be a very rge drain on my mana to keep it up and I didn't even notice the mana reserve at the time. I wonder if that means I'll be able to pump up its effects even further ter.
[Focused Perception - Enha Magic Spell]This spell temporarily imbues your body with magic that improves yht, nightvision, hearing, and sense of smell. This spell reserves a portion of your mana and drains your mana as upkeep as long as it stays in effect. A rger portion of your mana be reserved for stronger effects up to a cap.
This one is worded very simirly. While this one is less useful in battle it's probably much more useful outside of battle. Rather thae I just cast it right away at its default improvement. My senses instantly sharpened, all of my senses became much more acute all at once. I could suddenly see much more at a much higher crity. But while my senses were improved, my ability to actually distinguish them hasn't gotten aer. I didn't have any issues with sight, it was the most straightforward of the senses but hearing and smelling were just a jumble of information I couldn't sort through at all yet. The sounds all overpped and became muddled, the smells became stronger and more distinguishable but it was hard tnize any of them at their new iy.
After a moment I noticed Tarklin was waving at me, he eaking but there was so muoise that I couldn't actually isote what he was saying. I released the spell and instantly a pressure that I didn't realize I was feeli my head all at once, causio feel a bit lightheaded.
Man pced her hand on my shoulder. "Lilith? Are you alright? You looked like you were in pain all of a sudden."
I rubbed my eyes, everything looked kind of blurry now but I retty sure it was just the stark differeo when the spell . "Yeah, everything is fine. I just cast a new spell I got that heightened my senses and I wasn't used to it. Did I really look that bad? I didn't even notice it until I turhe spell off."
Tarklin was the ohat answered me. "Yes, spells that enhance senses are a bit more plicated than some other ohey're a bit rare and are both powerful aile but they take a lot more practiaster than most other spells. They're predominantly given to scout csses but your version would probably be a caster variant of it. A lot more brute force than the scout version but since you use Magitrol on it, it is also more adjustable. It would be a terrible spell without that though, sis default state is just all of your senses ked up with no filter."
"You seem to know a lot about this," I said. "How could you even tell all that?"
He smirked. "I have magic sight too, it's not hard to tell. I've been around the block for a while and traveled with many different adventurers. You're not the first one I've seen suddenly get that cssic look of suddenly getting a hanght after a battle." He ughed at me but I could tell it was meant to be lighthearted.
I shooed him away. "Yeah yeah, I'll have to turn it down a little ime I try it. I got a headache so fast I didn't even realize it. Now leave me alone, I'm still looking over my status."
"Sure," he said with a ugh. Man smiled at me and squeezed my knee and Torie back to eating. ...how many bowls has she had? Ehh... not important.
Lets see what this title is now.
[You have acquired the title Demon Hunter][Demon Hunter - Rare Title]The bearer of this title has hunted down and killed hundreds of demons alone or in a party. Whether this was done over the course of a lifetime or in a single night matters not. The bearer of this title will forever be infused with the mana of the demons they've hunted, strengthening them for their future hunts. The title bearer will now be able to sehe traiasma that colled follow demonkind and their magic will be empowered against them. Do not bee what you seek to destroy.
This title is much more ominous than the previous I've received. It also really puts into perspective just how many demons everyone killed tonight. In a way I am surprised I didn't level more than I did but I suppose I did level a lot sidering the vast numbers of people who participated in enclosing the dungeon. I wonder if the church adherents already had this title. Could they have been suspicious of me from the very beginning because I used to be a demon and they weren't sure what to make of what this title was telling them?
Lets put those thoughts aside for now. There are just too many things I don't know and right now I o foaking the best choices I . I looked over my stats. I received 4 primary levels so I have another 40 points to distribute. My css went up to level 8 all in one go and gave me a free 40 points of Magic Forbsp;from its css bonus. Assuming I stay on this css for a while I'm probably better off putting my points into magitrol. Though my Strength is starting to fall behind some of my other heavily used stats so maybe I should split the points between them...
Yeah since I'm getting a bunch of free Magic Forbsp;and I get a lot of free Finesse from that new enha spell I got, Strength and Magitrol is where I he most stats since I don't have another source for them right now. I'll put 20 points into each bringing them both up to 70. With that lets look over the status sheet as a whole.
[Status]Name: Lilith [Surname Undefined]Race: Succubus [Race Hidden - Dispyed as Beastkin (Sheep)]Gender: FemaleCss: [Novice Magian] Lv. 8Level: 38
Stat Spread:Strength: 70Vitality: 100Charisma: 10 (179)Luck: 20 (189)Finesse: 50Magitrol: 70Magic Force: 80 (120)Speed: 50 (70)Endurance: 10
Karmiergy: 1690
Unallocated Stat points: 0
Avaible Csses:Bck Cat Lv. 10Seductress Lv. 1Novice Prostitute Lv.2Novice Mert Lv. 7Novice Light Mage Lv. 5Novice Illusion Mage Lv. 1Novice Swordsman Lv. 1Apprentice Swordsman Lv. 1Intermediate Swordsman Lv. 1Novice Magian Lv. 8
Skills:Haggling Lv. 15Swordsmanship Lv. 37Illusion Magic Lv. 3Light Magic Lv. 9Light Manipution Lv. 8Uuna Riding Lv. 13Linguistics Lv. 10Ritual Magic Lv. 10Drawing Lv. 11Mana Sense Lv. 4Luck Magic Lv. 1
Css AbilitiesMert Skill - CalcutionsProstitute Passive - Resist DiseaseProstitute Passive - Magigers
Special Passives:Special drop rate upSightspeakDouble Down
Innate Abilities:KarmiceKarma AwarenessKarmic ResonanceKarmic RetributionDominating AuthorityKarmic HypnotismSoultouched e Lv. 3Induce Arousal
Racial Traits:Infernal Heat Resistanfernal Cold ResistanceDarksightSexual Appetite Lv. 5SoultouchSuccubus ShiftingSoulbound panionsLubrig SalivaPleasure Sense
Titles:[World Traveler - Hidden Title][in of Succubi - Hidden Title][Dungeoroyer][First Explorer][Early Intervention][Demon Hunter]
Spells:Light Magic:[Light Orb][Fireflies][Light Beam][Light Signal][Light Scribing][Light Burst]
Illusion Magic:[Zone of Silence]
Luck Magic:[Melee Hex][ Flip][Die Nudge][Bckjack]
Entment Magic:[Fme Imbue][Bde Waltz][Focused Perception]
All in all I think I made a lot ress tonight. We got involved when we probably didn't o but it probably went at least some of the way iing the crazy church people off our bad we got some levels to boot. While the fighting was exhausting and we killed an endless number of the demons, the situation didn't feel nearly as dangerous as when we were in the dungeon.
I looked over and saw that Man had fallen asleep leaning on me. I must have been looking at my status for a while. Torien had finished eating and had her head down oable. Looking at her I was holy a little worried about the table supp her weight, it was a bit flimsier than I would trust ying my head down on.
"They've been asleep for ten minutes now. You must have been thinking hard about whatever you got from that fight st night."
I shrugged. "I got a det number of levels and gained some spells from it. Had a lot to read through." I looked at Man leaning against my side. "It's been a long night. I don't really want to wake them but we should probably head back to town as soon as possible to give the guild master the news. I'm not sure where the Tamin Church people went but surely they believe us that demons were in that dungeon now."
"It would be hard not to sidering everyone here probably got the [Demon Hunter] title st night, including you. Now that I have it too I'm not surprised they were ied in you."
The hairs on the bay neck went up. "What do you mean?"
He put his hands up pgly. "I didn't mean anything by it, it's just that you have the miasma of demons ging to you. I see it clear as day now. It's more than would be normal if you only fought them. I don't need you to tell me your story to know you're no friend of demons though. I watched you cut them down all night o me after volunteering to do so. I'm just giving you a warning. The Tamin church were probably ied in you because they have a demon hunter in town and could see the miasma ging to you. This whole thing robably just a fa?ade to get you alone and interrogate you, just like the guild master feared in the first pce. I would be surprised if this fiasco didn't reaheir priorities a bit though. I doubt you're off their list entirely but watg you sughter demons st night probably made you look more like an indepe demon huhan a cultist to them."
"...what do you think?" I asked.
He shrugged and smiled. "I don't know what to think. You don't strike me as the demon huype. I've met some of them, they're... not all there. The kinds of people who are in that deep aren't the types to secretly flirt with each other all the time."
My jaw dropped, I was about to say something but he quickly put up his hand.
"o say anything. I doubt they noticed and I'm a follower of Morkinnen, o worry about me standing in your way. I would be open to joining you and your harem for a night whe back to town though if everyone would be open to that. I've quite grown to like you and yroup."
I was left speechless. I truly had no idea how to respond.
Saine
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