Christopher Martin
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Cipher lets out a loud groan as his head rests against his desk. “How?” he asks Sage in front of him before lifting his head and meeting her cold, dead eyes. “Just how is it that every single time she goes out during a Demonic Assault, she ends up in some situation that would The woman just stares without saying anything, knowing that Cipher is just venting. “First it was a demon knight on a floor without anything important on it. Nothing to guard at all. Which just doesn’t happen.” Cipher…-
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Without wasting any time, I open the descriptions for Blood Claws, Blood Siphon, Life Drain, and Blood Regeneration. But then I’m faced with disappointment when I find that all of their descriptions are still the same. Well that’s annoying. Well, anyways, time to check out the skills store. I raise an eyebrow at the tanuki without actually looking at him before focusing on the new skills. Which include the one new epic, and several new rares that I find after expanding the list a bit. Okay,…
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I ignore the ringing in my ears as I finally jump up towards the demon while using blood boil and life drain on it at the same time. Though it doesn’t give much reaction to the two. Instead it raises both of its bladed legs to strike at me, but I roll out of the way before climbing back to my feet and running around it as the legs dig their way into the soil where I was at. Then I rake my claws across its lower legs and grimace as I feel the resistance meeting me. But it’s not too much resistance that…
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The queen begins stepping outside of the nest, which wouldn’t be possible for a regular breeder, before I get a new message from the System that pushes straight past the hold I have on messages right now. I blink in surprise at that. Its level just jumped. By seventeen levels. From eating its offspring. Although now that I think about it, they weren’t technically the same species despite being demons and being born of the queen, so it makes sense that the queen would level from killing them. Still.…
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The last surviving arachnid outside of the nest lets out a loud cry as I tear my hand into its abdomen before ripping it off of its body entirely, leaving the creature’s cry to go up an octave in pitch before vanishing completely as it dies. I let out a sigh of relief before using clean on myself as I jump off of the thing’s corpse. That wasn’t too bad. I wince slightly as my feet hit the ground, sending a tremor through my body, making the large hole in my side that’s currently healing hurt…
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Tar doesn’t say anything for several seconds. But then, out of nowhere, he appears in the air in front of me looking rather weary. I frown. Are you okay? Seriously. Tell me what happened! Punished how? You look ragged. Oh. I stare at him for several seconds, just taking in his ragged appearance for a bit before eventually sighing. Okay. But you better tell me what you were talking about as soon as you’re allowed to, do you understand? The tanuki nods his head before vanishing from Earth as he…
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After Emily gets here, I pick her up and carry her into the tree myself – to her apparent embarrassment – before telling her the plan. Then, on the knight’s next round trip around the nest, we begin. I start by using life drain at a very small degree, but the knight doesn’t seem to notice. So I up it up more and more before eventually adding blood boil to the works. Which does finally manage to get its attention as it suddenly stops in its patrol route. Then it looks down and eventually follows…
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After more than a little argument from Belle, I manage to make it away from the group and begin heading in the direction of the variant. While, of course, killing any demons I run into along the way. And throughout this process, I still don’t hear from Tar again. Which makes me wonder what happened. His last words sounded strained. Like he was barely able to say them. And when his voice faded away? It felt almost as if he was leaving against his will. I hope he didn’t break a rule or something.…
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As it turns out, the process of killing demons in the park is very similar to how it was in the ranking tournament. What with it being a forest filled with Class I demons in the middle of the night with a blood moon high in the sky. The only difference being that the trees are trees. Not whatever the trees on Tartarus are. And there are people to save. “There’s another group of people a little ways in that direction,” I say while pointing East, and Michael quickly nods before we begin making our way…
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“Now, moving onto the System itself, or rather the automatic management of the System,” Nautical continues as if he hadn’t just said any of that. “Many of you already know of the System’s voice that echoes in your head when you kill a demon or level a skill. What you don’t know is just how this ‘automatic management system’ works. And that is a large part of what you will be learning in this class.” Someone raises their hand after he finishes that statement, surprising me for a moment.…
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