Chapter 16
Sunday December 21, 2012
12:12 pm
(Ivan's POV)
God I really wish Anenoid was smarter. Sure, his stats for Int and Wis might be higher than mine, but it doesn't show. He just had to go up to the machine and smack it. I wish he would think before he acts. And look at him now, he is on the ground in pain. In my opinion he deserves it.
The Guardian stands over him and then suddenly it quickly turns its head over to my direction. I panic and I start run into the pillars. I couldn't even get a few steps in because something grabbed my leg. I look down and I see a tube wrap itself around my leg. I then feel a tingle in my right arm, but before I could react another tube comes out of nowhere and it goes around my arm. At the same time both of the tubes went inside my body. My body tenses, then I suddenly go limp. One tube fills up with a bright orange liquid while the other tube fills up with a red liquid. When the tube on the machines back were completely full, I feel the tubes leave my body.
My body falls to the ground. I feel a burning sensation go through my body, I use Gamer's Mind to block out the pain and I quickly get up. I look at the machine and I see walking towards me. I take out Tribute and I start running. I run for a few seconds, and I only stop when I make sure that the machine stopped chasing me. When I turned around, I saw that it was completely gone. I breathe a sigh of relief. My safety didn't last long though, I hear a clicking above. I look above me, and I see the machine looking down at me with its legs holding it by penetrating the nearby pillars. Without warning the eye turns to a red color and it sends a wave of fire towards me. I use Shadow Swimming to doge it, but I was forced to get out of the shadows after two seconds.
When I left the shadows and I start running at my top speed. I slow down and notice my Mp bar was almost empty. I hide behind a random pillar and I take out a medium sized Mp potion. I drink it in two gulps, and I toss the bottle in between the pillars. I hear it shatter and I hear the crackling of fire. I look to where I threw the bottle and I see fire where the bottle landed. I look at the top the machine and notice that the crimson colored tube had a little bit less of the liquid then the rest of the other tubes. I turn around and get out Tribute.
I store twenty points of my Mp to use in my gun. I close my eyes and I try to think of something. What are the Guardian's powers? It can use fire, and maybe it can teleport? This would so much more easier if I had more information on it. The only thing I have on it is its title. Well it must be called The Copycat for a reason. My thoughts were interrupted because I sensed something coming for me. I use Wind's Cannon to launch myself to the side. I land on my arm and I look at what was about to attack me. I see a black hand come out of the pillar I was hiding behind. I saw no sign of the machine though.
I run my right and I look back at the hand. It kind of reminds me of when Anenoid used a shadow hand to grab me. The hand turns to the right, I notice this, and I run to the left. I didn't stop running until I was absolutely sure I was safe. Nope I was not safe. I turn my head to the side and I see a wave of fire coming towards me. I jump to the side, but I wasn't fast enough. My sweatpants couldn't handle the fire. The fire scorched my legs and the fire slowly made its way up my body. I fall to the ground and I try to take off the remaining part of the pants, but the fire suddenly went out. I look at my legs and I see that there was some blisters on the skin. Every passing second my legs felt like they were constantly getting held down with a burning hot piece of iron. My attention snaps back to a box that appeared in front of me, I look around and I saw nothing in sight. This box better be short.
Because you were hit with a wind attack, the perk Wind's Kiss activated!
I completely forgot about this perk! I forgot what it does it though. I close the box and I look at for the machine. I hear thumping above me, I look up and notice the tip of the Guardian poking out of a pillar. Where is the rest of its body? I didn't get much time to think about it. It came out of the pillar and when it landed on the ground, it started to chase me. I turn around and I start to run. I immediately notice that I was much more faster than I was before. Is it because of the perk? I look behind me and I notice that the red and black tube had less of the liquid than they did before. I run through some more pillars and I end up back in the middle of the room. I see Anenoid in the middle of the room looking around with a scared look on his face. I run up to him and I turn around to see if the Guardian was still following me.
I look back at Anenoid. "So where were you when I was getting chased?"
"I thought it would be better to be in an open area instead of being somewhere where there was a bunch of blind spots." Did he not once think of me during that? I let out a sigh and I close my eyes and I try to think of a plan.
Whenever I see the boss the amount of liquid in the tubes reduce. What do the tubes do? I try to think of why the amount of liquid gets smaller every time I see the boss. So far, it's only been using its fire powers and some kind of other power. Maybe it can control shadows just like Anenoid? I remember how a few moments ago the machine was in a pillar. Maybe it was actually in a shadow? Did it copy Anenoid's power when it stuck a tube inside of him? It would make sense though. His main power is to control shadows. It takes me a second to realize that when the machine sticks a tube in you it copies your powers and transforms it into a liquid so that it can use your powers later.
I open my eyes and I already begin planning what to do. "Hey Anenoid, when the machine comes, I'm going to distract it and while its distracted I want you to break the tubes on its back."
In a sarcastic tone he says, "Sure. What could possibly go wrong." I look around and I see a glimpse of red in the distance. I take a deep breath, then I slowly breathe out.
"Anenoid stay here. I will get the machine out into the open." Before he can respond I start to run in the direction of the machine. When I get close to the machine the boss turned its body in my direction. I keep my distance while also beginning to form multiple arrows. I shoot the arrows and it hits the body. The arrows didn't even leave a scratch on the body. I was thinking about taking out Tribute, but the machine started to walk towards me. I keep taking steps back as it gets closer to me. When we get closer to the middle of the room, I catch a glimpse of Anenoid hiding behind the pillars.
C'mon Anenoid. All you have to do is destroy the tubes. The machine decides to start speed walking towards me. I had to turn around and do a light jog in order to not get stomped on. I hear glass shatter and I quickly turn around.
The machine stumbles back and I see Anenoid swing his weapon and it connects with the red tube. The crimson liquid spills onto the back of the machine. The Guardian flails its body around, hoping that Anenoid would fly off its body. Somehow Anenoid was having no trouble staying on the machine. He slowly starts to make his way towards the bright orange tube. I look around for the third tube, but I didn't see it, I guess he must of destroyed it already. I run towards one of the machines legs and I aim Tribute towards it.
I pull the trigger and the recoil of the gun made my hands fly back, which causes it to hit my nose. I look at the leg and I see a giant hole in the leg. The Guardian falls on its side. I take out my Laser Xiphos and I charge the machine. Anenoid jumps down and he closes his eyes and starts to use one of his spells. I ignore him and I run towards a leg. I raise my sword and I bring it down when I was close enough to the leg. I start to wildly swing at the leg until I was all the way through the leg. I hear myself breathing and I feel my arm shake. I didn't think swinging a sword so much would be tiring. I feel something try to attack my side. I use Wind's Cannon to doge. I look back at the machine and I see Anenoid randomly swing his weapon.
I take a few steps back and I notice something covering Anenoid. I squint my eyes to get a better look at him, it took me a few seconds to figure out what was covering him. Anenoid had black marks on his skin, some of it was covering his face while some others were on his body. I also notice that Anenoid was moving faster than usual. Were the markings making him faster? I look at the places he struck with his weapon and see that each time he was hitting it. dents would appear. I'm so happy he didn't use that on me when we fought. He stops for a second and he begins to cast another spell. While he casts the spell, he slowly brings his weapon over his head, when it was over his head, he quickly brings it down. I feel a shock go through my body and I feel my whole body begin to shake. In only a second, the Guardian's body splits in half.
Hell, he was even able to cut off a part of the pillar that was behind the machine. How the hell did he do that? I look at Anenoid and the markings covering his body begin to dissolve. I begin to start walking towards Anenoid, but four boxes appeared so I read them first.
Quest Completed!
Rewards:
700xp
$100
New perk
15x Mp medium sized potions
Robot parts
5 levels to every elemental skill/ability
Yay! What Am' I supposed to do with robot parts though? I ignore the parts for now and I check what my new perk is.
Copycat- You can copy anybody's movements perfectly. (If two people are doing the same thing, the person who did it better is the person you will copy.)
I grin as I read this. I'm going to abuse the shit out of the perk. But wouldn't it make more since if I could copy powers instead of movement? I stop thinking about and I read the next box.
You did specific actions that raise your stats!
+2 to Wis
+1 to Int
+4 to Dex
+3 to Vit
I close the box and look at the last box. I saw that it was about me leveling up two times, so I decided to ignore it. I look over at the machine and see that there was some parts sticking out. I saw wires and all sorts of parts I couldn't even name. I walk over to it, I notice that the eye looked like it could easily be able to be pried from its head. I walk over and I was easily able to take the eye from its head. I use Inspect on it, but it didn't tell me anything important. It was pretty much a camera; it did nothing special. I put it in my inventory, and I go to the part where the machine was sliced in half. I take try to take out some parts, but I couldn't; mostly because I didn't know how the machine worked. I take a step back and wonder, 'Can I make something like this someday?' I bet it would be fun to build something like this. I turn around and I walk over to Anenoid. When I was walking towards him I feel a shiver do down my spine and a box appears in front of me.
Your perk Wind's Kiss deactivated!
"C'mon, I want to get out of this place."
"Can we at least rest first? I got tired just from staying on that things back."
"Sure." I sit down a few feet away from him. Wait how is he tired, isn't he dead? "How can you be tired? Aren't you dead? How do dead people get tried?"
He looks at me with a little bit of hate in his eyes. "Well I just want to relax for now. We did just fight this stupid machine." I glare at him and I respond in an annoyed tone.
"So, you are ready to leave right? I don't want to spend my whole day here."
"This is your training. You just have to explore this dungeon even more." I let out a groan and I decide to absorb him back into my ring.
I get up and I make my way over to the elevator. Thankfully it only took me a few minutes to find the elevator, I step inside and I stretch. I look at the buttons and press the button with an arrow pointing up, shortly after I feel the elevator move. I wait for the elevator doors to open and when they do, I notice that the floor was back to normal. What the hell happened here? I step into the room and I carefully make my way to the other side of the room. Surprisingly the floor didn't start moving and there were no monsters appearing out of nowhere. I go through the hallway and I enter the first room of the dungeon.
Immediately I saw that the machine that made the robots was in the middle of the room again. The machine starts to make smoke and I quickly summon Anenoid. Of course, like always Anenoid said something annoying.
"Of course we are already in another fight! I swear you only summon me to make me fight your battles."
"Well you shouldn't have died. Now shut up and fight." He glares at for a few seconds and he turns to face the robots. I give him his weapon and I take out my katana. A human robot appears, and I notice that it was holding a katana. I grin as I already think of a plan.
"Anenoid you see that robot." I point to the robot that was holding the katana. Anenoid replies with a confused look on his face.
"Yeah what about him?"
I feel my lips form a smile and I tell him what to do. "Kill every robot except that one. I want to train a little bit." Anenoid's face looks little more confused but he nods his head anyway. When we were done talking, we both rushed at the robots.
Sunday December 21, 2012
12:20 pm
(Ivan's POV)
"So, what are you going to do with the robot?" I look back at Anenoid but the robot that was still alive started to attack me, I quickly doge and I put some distance between us.
"I just want to train with a sword, maybe train my powers a little bit. Just make sure nothing else comes out of the machine." He lets out a groan and he walks over to the machine. I turn my head and I walk slowly towards the robot. I raise my katana over my head, and I bring it down. The robot quickly blocks my sword and goes to cut my arm. I don't why but for some reason my head felt a bit fuzzy. After a second the feeling goes away and I was able to move my sword quickly enough to block the robots katana. I move back a couple of steps and I try to think of what that fuzzy feeling in my head was.
Is that what it feels like to use Copycat? I thought it would feel different. I didn't expect it to automatically teach me how to parry. This is definitely something I could abuse. I take a few steps towards the robot. The robot swings his sword at my arm, I quickly block it and I go to stab it in the stomach. It quickly doges and it tries to slice my neck . I duck and it barely grazed the top of my head. The robot kicks me in the nose and my head snaps back. I land on my side; I look up and I see raising its sword. I roll onto my back and I quickly get back up. I quickly swing my sword to its side. My sword was able to leave a tiny mark in its side. I raise the hilt of my sword so that it was at my chest, and I thrust my sword into its chest. The robot raises its sword and brings it down.
I let go of my sword and I doge. The sword cuts my shoulder and I like at the cut. At first, I feel like my arm was on fire and that it like it was constantly getting pinched by a metal claw, then I felt my sweatshirt begin to feel wet. I look at my shoulder and I see that the sweatshirt was quickly becoming red. My eyes widen and I decided to back off for now. I try to move my arm, but it burned too much. I use my other arm to get out a health potion and I open the bottle with my mouth. I quickly drink it and I feel the burning sensation in my arm go away. I take out another katana and I approach the robot. I quickly strike at the robots arm, but it blocked my sword. It tries to slash at my neck, but I use Wind's Cannon to knock the sword out of its hand. It grabs the sword in its chest, but I quickly stab it in the neck. Its arms go limp and I know it's dead. I kick its lower body and it falls to the ground. I grab the sword in its chest, and I pull it out. A few boxes appear, but I put them aside for later. I take a deep breath and I stretch my arms. I definitely need to get better with my sword.
Sunday December 21,2012
5:37 pm
(Ivan's POV)
Its been a few hours since I started training here. I think I need to leave and take a break for now. I start to walk towards the entrance, and I hear Anenoid walk next to me. I get to entrance, and I remember that I have to swim up to the surface.
"Anenoid can you do anything about the water? I don't wanna swim." I hear him let out a groan and then he starts to mutter some words. All of a sudden, I my vision turns to black. I feel my body move and then I hear some splashing. In what felt like seconds I was on the surface. I put Anenoid back in my ring, to my surprise he didn't complain about it. I guess he finally got used to it. I look around to find the direction of Dominique's apartment.
With how cold it was and how much snow was falling, it took me awhile to get to the apartment. I get to the door and I turn the knob. Thankfully the door was unlocked, I step inside and I notice a bag on the couch. In the hallway a door opens and Dominique walks into the hallway. I walk towards the couch and Dominique walks to the living room. I sit on the right couch and I make sure I don't sit on the bag. Dominique sits on the opposite end of the couch.
He turns on the TV and a few hours pass without anyone of us saying anything to each other. The sun eventually sets, and Dominique finally says something.
"Look in the bag we have to do something tonight." Dammit. I didn't want to do anything for the rest of the day. I reach for the bag and I look at what was inside it. Inside the bag there was some blueberries, as far as I can tell there nothing special about these blueberries. Just to be safe I use Inspect on it.
Blueberry (Soul made)
These blueberries are grown and made with Soul. With these blueberries the person who eats them transform into their 18 year old self. They will still have the same strength, speed, and Mp as they before they ate the blueberry. The effect will last for 24 hours.
Why would anyone want to make this with their powers? I take out one blueberry and raise it to my mouth. I stop myself and I think. 'what about my clothes will they rip when I grow?' I turn my head to Dominique, and I ask him if he has any clothes.
"Just eat it and when you're done growing, I will buy some new clothes. Either way you probably won't grow that much. Maybe you will be five two if you're lucky." I glare at him for a little bit before I decide to grab the bag and go to the bathroom. I close the door and I look at the blueberry. Hopefully this won't mess with my body too much. I take off my clothes and I eat the berry expecting to immediately grow. Surprisingly the blueberry had one of the most sourest tastes I ever had in my life. After a while I get use to the taste and I even start to enjoy it. I wait for a few seconds for something to happen, but nothing happened. Maybe it only works for people who can use Soul?
Apparently, I was wrong because I soon notice that the ground looked further away. I didn't feel pain or uncomfortable, actually I didn't feel anything. It goes on for a little bit and it finally stops. I look down and I feel a wave of uneasiness wash over me. It felt unsettling being this tall and it didn't feel right. It felt like I was a completely new person. I calm down I decide to check the profile tab for my new height.
Height: 6 feet 8 inches (204.216 Centimeters)
Wait what. How can I go from being so short to being to tall; does it have to do with me being a demigod? Are all demigods like this? I don't have any clothes that fit me! I sigh and I open the bathroom door. I should I probably call out to Dominique.
"Dominique! Come over here!" I quickly hear the footsteps and I see walk towards me. I hid behind the door and when he finally reached the door, I had to look down at him. Is this what it feels like for other people when they talk to me? I see his face look shocked, but he quickly calms down. He turns his head the other way and he begins to walk away. He turns around and he says something.
"Just wait there while I get you something." I wait for a little bit before I see him return with a water bottle. He gives it to me and looks up at me. "Just drink that while I go get you some clothes." He turns around and walks out of the apartment. I stare at the bottle and decide to drink it.
I take one sip, and everything fades to black.