Sitting around a small campfire while enjoying so stew, I was translating everything Kramps was telling to Vifi, keeping her inford just as Kramps wanted. Considering what he just told , allowing her to hear about her ancestors—the archdemons—seed warranted to , and even if it wasn’t interesting to Vifi, I thought she should know about it, at least.
She hadn’t chosen her Job evolution yet, so she might be antsy about choosing one soon.
“That’s how it already works,” I said.
While it was possible for artisans and day workers to gain experience without killing anything through Quests—usually work-related requests, in this case—the amount they could get from them was enough to maybe bring them up to level 15 at a convenient pace. The point was that it was hard for the average person to beco strong.
After all, the whole leveling and Job systems were balanced around the fact you could only beco stronger if you fought and killed others. Being an adventurer, soldier, or any combat profession was the way to go.
Kramps continued.
Considering Grimnir’s blessed benefits were mostly focused on his smithing and runesmithing abilities, I could see that being one of the reasons.
“Ha, the first otherworldly ritual of its kind, and the gods are panicking to find a way to combat it? In a way, I can’t help but feel proud of that. Hard conditions to fulfill, so it had to result in that much. You need a proper demonic connection to the Edjurl gods, after all,” Vifi explained. “Two have been enacted, as you know. The first was to summon those brats—accidentally also Saori—by sacrificing the life of our previous prince of lust. The second used the prince of envy’s life. Wanna guess the requirent?”
“Considering you only listed those two, I presu you need a prince of sin for it?”
“Almost correct. You need pure demon blood. Do you rember the black-liquid potions my fellow soldiers and a few Edjurian sympathizers ingested to change their figures? The forr gaining more strength with a skin change, while the latter usefully morphs into more grotesque forms? That’s the ans the princes of sin use to make their blood as pure as possible for the rituals,” she said. “Only works with a prince of sin, though, and you need an unholy amount of mana to even begin the ritual! You need the prince’s heir to be ready to fully inherit their prince’s blood as well, so Bole’Taria doesn’t just lose one of their major fighters for years to concoct new blood for the process.”
“… I’m starting to get really curious about this. Do you mind bringing up to speed with this?” I asked. With Vifi fully on our side, I believed I was allowed to ask this now.
And I was right.
“Sure. Princes of sins are created by injected pure demon blood into the vessel, which allows them to not only use their demonic powers at a higher degree of efficiency, but also allows them to access the archdemon’s sin abilities. Satan and Satanael for wrath demonkin, as a reminder.” Vifi then pointed at her chest before pulling her gambeson down a bit to show a small scar. “However, pure demon blood is deadly for your body, unless you train to accept it. Through the creation of sin crystals, sin heirs are created by putting one of them into our bodies and that allows us to adapt to the demon blood over ti; but, as I said, that requires a lot of ti. You need the sin heir to be ready, otherwise the process would fail without a doubt.”
“And you pried yours out to pay Ghorush to save your apprentice, right.”
She nodded. “The first, and only, batch of pure demon blood was made 600 years ago, and none have been synthesized ever since. I don’t know how long it would take, but with the prince of envy’s dramatic self-offering, Bole’Taria has effectively lost their prince of envy until Lord Sloth can create more blood. That ans, they must extract the blood from the remains of Master Envy.”
“By ‘Master Envy’ you an the archdemon of envy,” I replied, which she confird, prompting to tilt my head. “Then … how did they create princes of lust? Klea’s body was beaten up by Belzac until Aurena destroyed it all when she was imprisoned.”
“… She fucked around. A lot,” Vifi stated with the most deadpan expression ever, causing to gasp awkwardly. “Okay, maybe a bit too dramatic, but it isn’t hard to think how it happened. The sin of lust’s powers involve creating blood and flesh through demonic energy. Save up so of the bits of flesh from whenever Mistress Klea was fighting people and your descendants might be able to scavenge enough for so blood. The important part is that the pure blood was only made once for each sin. You just need enough and to ensure that your princes of sins don’t just randomly die without choosing an heir. Easy, right?”
Kramps praised, even sending an image of him clapping. I knew he was trying to congratulate for my party’s achievent, but seeing that giant black dragon slow clap was a surreal sight. Almost like he was sarcastic … although, he wasn’t.
[Sacred Equilibrium Lv. 5] gained
As the discussion wound down, Vifi and I went back to our al and spent the remaining ti left in the evening planning our Job expenditure. Starting with [Lightbearer], I bought three slots so I could equip four of the skills I wanted, which were exclusive to the Job.
Since [Elental Resistances: Proficiency Lv. 1], [Arcane Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1], and [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1] were shared with [Wildfire], and I had already bought two of them on that Job, I ignored them on [Lightbearer]. A bit of min-maxing the points as I could simply switch to [Wildfire] whenever I wanted to level up my pure magic skills, while leaving [Lightbearer] as a more combat-proficient Job, due to [Sacred Equilibrium Lv. 1], [Demonsbane Lv. 1], and [Darksbane Lv. 1].
Sacred Equilibrium: This Job skill may be activated by spending mana to maintain it, with its overall mana cost reduced by the level of the skill. While active, reduce all holy-aligned attacks by 90% while increasing the potency of all healing sources by 10% * skill level. If the owner of this skill possess the [The Light] title, further amplify healing effects to allow sacred, or more potent, healing abilities to also slightly regenerate flesh as long as a healing spell is applied
Biggest prize of this Job was this one skill here as a pure healing modifier, especially since [Miraculous Grace] should be viable as it was “more potent” than even [Major Heal]. The 90% flat attack reduction was incredibly debilitating, but in exchange, it would grant a 100% healing boost at level ten. Worthy trade-off, since the skill also applied to self-healing.
Yes, self-healing. On the dragon with one of the most potent ways to heal herself. This skill was a no-brainer, which was why I spent my last four points to increase it to level 5.
[Demonsbane] and [Darksbane] were easy enough to understand. They increased my damage done to demonic and dark-aligned enemies, respectively.
Now to my two other equipped Jobs, I didn’t spend anything on [Idol] since I needed to save ten points for the evolution of [Heavenly Performance Act 2]. [Crimson Inferno Tyrant]—and this was an important choice now that I had gained [Job Crossover]—had befuddled about what to choose. While the skill hadn’t introduced any new skills to buy, it still offered the sa two Neill had warned about when I first showed her them.
Tyrant of the Skies: The embodint of Kargryxmor’s legacy, constructed by the God of Dragons in accordance to his earlier years. A skill specialized in the solo battle prowess of the Kargryxmor spawn, increasing [Battle Frenzy] stat boost by 2% regardless of the stage. Increases 2% of all stats if the owner fights a monster of a higher rank or of the sa rank but of a higher or similar level. These percentages increase by 2% per skill level. Will exclude [Tyrant’s Successor]
Tyrant’s Successor: The embodint of Kargryxmor’s legacy, constructed by the God of Dragons in accordance with his rule as emperor. A skill specialized in leading others and ruling the land as an imperial royalty of Kargryx. While leading retainers or soldiers fully loyal to you, you increase their stats, experience, and proficiency gain by 1%. Increase stat gained by 5% through monster or Unique Job evolutions. Increases percentage by 1% per skill level. While battling any non-royal dragonkins, decrease their stats by 15%. Will exclude [Tyrant of the Skies]
The first skill was a straight up monstrous skill that probably stacked with [Battle Frenzy Mastery]’s own 20% stat increase during [Battle Frenzy] after it reached level 10. Essentially, with this skill, I would have a 60% stat increase as long as I fought sobody stronger, and this was applied with the base stat increase I would normally get from [Battle Frenzy].
However, the second skill was incredibly strong with how my [Hestia’s Retainer] I’ve spread to my friends and companions, including Neill herself. Not to ntion, a 15% decrease in a dragon’s stat as long as they weren’t part of my family? What I would have given to have this when I was trapped in Inferno Nest, man …
Yet, it was also the skill Neill had vehently warned from getting, due to the political issues it would cause for the succession crisis. While Kahalaet and Wendriosa were smart and nice enough to forgive for it, other dragons—like Maustoovaka—would only see [Tyrant’s Successor] as my first step into taking the crown.
Back then, when I talked about it with Neill, I wasn’t fully onboard with her reasoning, but after a month staying here, I couldn’t help but agree more. I could not agitate the fire dragons nor could I feed into the holy dragons’ ambition for … Yet, the skill was so good!
That was the conundrum! Which was why I decided to play it safe and simply invest into two benefit slots to future-proof myself—one for [Battle Frenzy Mastery] and the other for when I wanted to make the choice—and leaving one point up. As such, I spent two points to increase my skill level.
[Crimson Inferno Tyrant] Prestige spent. 2 Prestige Points spent on Benefit Slots. 2 Prestige Points to [Battle Frenzy Mastery Lv. 1] -> [Battle Frenzy Mastery Lv. 3] gained
With that, I was done for the day, as Vifi had already gone to sleep after she finished her Job review earlier. With her asleep, I stayed up for my shift on watch until I could sleep and that was how we spent the evening, until I could finally ask her about her Job in the morning. I also asked Tasianna on an update through the subspace, but it looked like nothing had co.
“Lord Siegragxus ntioned that he would pick you up once word ca for your delivery. Lord Karydrinos has been quite impatient, even threatening to personally go into Inferno Nest to forcibly grab the stones for you, aha. Lord Alextraxus had a terrible ti yesterday, my lady,” Tasianna reported. “Also, Lord Siegragxus had told to tell you that you are allowed to scout the glaciers, but to not enter them. The dragons training there haven’t been contacted in years, so it is likely so of them do not know that you are the empress’s daughter.”
“Since I’m a fire dragon, right. They wouldn’t believe before they try to kill .” I nodded before Vifi and I continued our travels.
It took us two more days until we finally made it. The glacial north where Tasianna and I would seek a thod to beco one with the sheer cold of Frozen Nest.
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