[Class Quest: Find the missing skills!
You picked an experintal sub-class not ant for use, three out of four skills could not be retrieved, but there are traces of their recorded locations.
Warning: This class’s skills cannot be learned.
Hints:
One of four skills was discovered in a labyrinth.One of four skills was discovered in the deepest trenches of the ocean.One of four skills was discovered on the warped moon.‘Singularity Edict’ was discovered in ruins of the lost epoch beneath an unholy cathedral. (LEARNED)]
“Cannot be learned? And then it says ‘learned’ right below that? Mr Scribe, this is handled by the dagger, right? It’s not making a lot of sense.”
Besides, Singularity Edict works perfectly well, I’ve tested that.
[Singularity edict] : Any one attack can only damage you once.
The testing Sofia had done consisted of channeling a piercing bolt with her bare hands. It burned her and caused her to continuously lose life, which made her think that sohow the skill actually did not work, but then when she tried stabbing herself with the bolt, it simply did not work. In the end she released the bolt aid at herself and watched it disperse in a mist of sparkly mana as it harmlessly hit her.
It was a bit strange that the continuous burn counted as a single instance of damage, but that was just how the skill worked. A workaround she found for that was to start channeling the bolt, and when she started taking damage, she would carefully expel so of the bolt’s mana, shortly bringing it back below the threshold where it would hurt her. When it then started to burn again, that counted as a second instance of damage and got negated from then on.
Another thing she had tried was stabbing herself with the key. She took damage from the stab, and then, that was it, no more damage no matter how much she tried to move the key around. Of course she could still break through the protection of her own skill if she wanted by simply cutting off all the mana keeping it running, sothing her mana heart allowed her to do without much effort.
In general managing her mana felt a lot more natural and easy now than it ever did, though Sofia was not sure how much of that was to be attributed to her mana heart and how much to her new race.
Reminding herself of her testing, Sofia felt like she understood why the skills ‘couldn’t be learned’.
When I learned the skill, I felt that it was connected to Ormoncleths’ essence in so way… I got stranded in the Deep right after so that had kind of left my mind, but that clearly happened! It would make sense that one needs the Lord’s essence to learn the relevant skill, I suppose?
And there are exactly four skills. What a totally coincidental coincidence.
I guess Ti doesn’t get one, since it’s dead.
So… I need Orator and Annihilator’s essences if I want to learn their skills.
I’ll probably get Orator’s when I kill scripture, going by the description of the quest rewards.
Then I should try to find Aphenoreth’s skill first.
[Singularity Edict] was found beneath an unholy cathedral… That’s got to be the Cathedral of the holy lich the Dragon admin had maps of. I still have those. Might be worth taking a look later.
The labyrinth feels like it has to be the one from the second trial. Too much of a coincidence. So this is probably Annihilator’s skill.
That leaves the two others, one on ‘the warped moon’, which has to be the hidden moon. Erredis did say it had sothing to do with the Deep, so that makes sense. The other in the deepest trenches of the ocean… That could be anywhere.
Hopefully it’s far away from the Leviathan…
One of these is Aphenoreth and the other is Orator. I guess I’ll ask them which is which next ti I get to et one. It’s been a long ti since Aphenoreth showed up…
Sofia grabbed the midenicite tablet from her storage ring.
Is he happy when I call him Uncle?
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Sofia released her magic, and the lightning bolt shot forward, soon losing itself in the black void.
“Seventeen seconds!” Bookie announced from the side.
“Right about sixty thousand mana per second with the sumr lody… Not bad. Considering this takes forty percent of my mana away, this ans my new best bolt options… Fifty seconds for a three million mana bolt, or just under three minutes for a five million one without the channeling speed from the music. I’ll say this is good enough.”
“Huge improvent!” Bookie enthusiastically cheered on.
“The mana heart helps a lot. And the singularity edict too. Makes the heat a lot more bearable.”
“But doesn’t it an the dragon arm is useless now?” Bookie asked.
“Useless? No, it’s still very much an almost unbreakable piece of armor. I find punching with it in demon form to be very comfortable too,” Sofia comnted, clenching and opening her fist in the dragon armguard she almost never took off.
“Sofia!”
“Yes?”
“What’s your favorite thing?” Bookie asked, walking up closer to Sofia.
“My favorite thing? You an like, skeletons?”
“Nooooo, your favorite thing! Like an object!” he explained, looking up at her from below.
“Does your Book form count as an object?” Sofia asked, picking him up and starting to walk back toward the castle.
“No, Bookie is Bookie, not an object!”
“Of course, of course, then… I would have to say my scepter. It’s durable, reliable, and assists in a lot of ways. If you asked about my most useful thing then it would be the storage ring, but my favorite? Totally my scepter,” she explained, while said scepter floated at her side, following her as she walked, ready to be grabbed and used at a mont’s notice.
“What about the Uncles’ gifts?” Bookie asked.
“I like them a lot too, but it’s not the sa. Maybe my mind will change in the future, who knows. What about your favorite thing, Bookie?”
“My magic gloves!” he imdiately answered.
“Everelle was nice to give you the second one. Right, didn’t you say you wanted clothes? Let’s try to make you so.”
“You rembered! But, Sofia… Do you know how to make clothes?”
“I can sew a bit, I’m sure we’ll manage sohow. I think I might be able to make bone cloth, even, look at what I managed to do when I was ssing around with the bone leaves for the trees,” Sofia said as she placed a handful of bone leaves in Bookie’s palm. They were soft and springy, almost like real leaves.
“Woah! Squishy bones!”
“It’s nice, right? I was also thinking of using it to make special clothes for my demon form.”
“Why are you guys freaking out so much?” Cinthia wondered, watching her chat being flooded by a lot more ssages than usual.
Scrolling up, she found the cause of the ss, a ssage by the Recessed she knew to be Sorrow.
[Crybaby] : I feel her! She’s back!
[|||||] : Σ(°ロ°)?!!!!
[Daddy Hatred] : Really? I thought she was gone for good this ti. Black holes suck. You’re lucky your daughter's such an anomaly, Crybaby.
[TheJailed] : I don’t know if I would call that luck.
[Halfsies] : If I had a coin for every ti a child of ours entered a black hole, I would have two coins, which is not much, but it is interesting that it happened twice.
[Crowface] : And she found her way out in what… Two hours?The last one never even ca back. Rest in peace, Pharene.
[ResoundingEchoes] : WHY DO YOU HAVE TO REMIND !? I hate you guys…
[|||||] : o7
[Crowface] : o7
[TheJailed] : o7
[Halfsies] : o7
[Daddy Hatred] : For free? Why, thanks.
[Crybaby] : Poor child…
[TallBro] : So… About Vakaria. Where??? *Look with concern*
[Halfsies] : And how? I don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone do that. Unless this hole was fake or sothing? Not that many ever took a chance at jumping in, but still.
[Unclean lord] : True, we barely had ti to be worried for Crybaby and she’s already back. Slls fishy.
[Twistyface] : Crybaby saideven the yellow succubus backed out, that shit was real and you know it. Unless you two suggest that she lied?
[|||||] : 💀
[Halfsies] : I never even entertained the idea, Crybaby might be our most trustworthy mber after myself, after all. It is a curious happening, is all.
[Crybaby] : She transford. I can feel her outside of the planes…
[|||||] : (°д °)!
[Daddy Hatred] : She ended up in the Margin sohow?! Quick! We have to retrieve her to fix Cinthia’s mory!!! Soone call the lich!
Cinthia bolted out of her room, running through the sect’s corridors.
“SARIA!!!”
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