Wait, that’s what you were ‘trembling’ about?
I roll my eyes and shake my head before I use many purplish-black tendrils from ‘Darkness Manipulation’ to quickly organize the collateral into three piles: corpses, weapons, and bags of all kinds. I then use [Storage] to put the corpses and weapons away, but pull one of the bloodied bags from the pile to search its contents.
“Yep, it’s just as ‘Size Up’ described. These guys had White Rapture’s signature cult robes and gear, and it looks like they keep their adventurer cards in here, too … it’s just as Eugus and Ms. Zelshen said at the orientation.”
One of the things that were mentioned in the lecture was that if adventurers suddenly die for some reason, no matter what rank they were before, all of the cards change from their current colored rank to gray. The gold writing also fades into black like ink as well. Going through some of the adventurers’/cultists’ cards, they all turned gray and black after their deaths.
“We’re supposed to report these things to the guild as soon as possible, but …”
“Right, let’s quickly see what we got first after I gather the cards …”
I gathered all of the cards I can get before putting the bags into [Storage] as well, but not before using one of their stored money pouches to keep the cards inside and put it in my pocket. I then [Clean] the whole backlot as well as myself and Nyra before sheathing her. I feel like I just cleaned up a murder scene … or a genocide.
I open the skills list again and check out my newest additions. From what I’m witnessing, I’m starting to question the validity of my LUCK for how good of a break this is.
~~
I’ll try to keep what I found short. First off, ‘Insightful Mapping’ is basically the necessary mechanic in every RPG game, allowing me to view a map only I could see that spans as far as my current mana capacity, 1 kilometer [~3,280 feet or over half a mile] for every 100 of my total MP. At my current level with the total MP being over 10,000, I can expand my range of mapping to an area over 100 kilometers [~328,000 feet or 62 miles].
If that isn’t something by itself, I can combine the functions of certain other skills to see where everything is. People, monsters, maybe even treasure if there’s a skill for that, and then some. If I combine this with the newly acquired ‘Detect’ skill, allowing me to sense the presence of people nearby without relying on magic, something that even overrides the ‘Stealth’ skill, I could see where the inhabitants of the whole city displayed as colored dots on a holographic-like, three-dimensional map. Add my ‘Size Up’ skill in the mix, and I could make out which dots have the ‘White Rapture Brother’ and ‘White Rapture Sister’ titles that are indicated in a different color. This would make finding the remaining cultists blending in Dondegarm a whole lot more efficient.
My other new skills, ‘Skill Point Conversion,’ ‘Class Authority,’ and ‘Loyal Accomplice’ are also very interesting, but I’ll go over what those are in another time. For now, to minimize detection, I keep my magical aura completely hidden with ‘Hide Magic’ and took an extra measure in hiding my name in another window with ‘Status Sorting,’ showing the display in my status as (N/A).
Just as a sort of experiment I take out my new adventurer’s card. When I look at where one’s name is indicated, disturbingly enough, it shows as completely blank, but my class and everything else is unchanged.
“Yeah, these identification-changing skills are scary …” I come to that conclusion as I put my card away.
Anyway, add all of those earlier-mentioned skills and ‘Stealth,’ I’m practically invisible. With additional preparations set and the backlot cleaned of the events that took place, I get out of it the same way I came in. No one notices me as I step out of the alleyway, just as I predicted, and I make my move to begin my sudden stealth-assassination mission. I aim to get the remaining cultists hidden in the city—that I counted 7 when I checked the map, making a total of 65 that were lingering in Dondegarm if I include those that I killed moments ago—eliminated before the feast. There weren’t any others outside of the walls when I expanded the map, so I don’t need to worry about those possibly camping out for the time being.
~~
20 minutes in Raiza’s time later, the mission was a bigger cinch than I thought, save for a couple of difficult hurdles. A few were scouting the area from the rooftops, and with me having my traumatic fear of heights, it was difficult avoiding myself from looking down. I don’t know how much damage I could take from falls even with my high defenses and I’m not planning to experiment on that anytime soon.
Anyway, most of these guys were Thieves, a ‘Whisper’ that’s apparently a promoted class from Thief, and a few Archers that took the higher ground for scouting. Despite my fear of heights, taking down the Archers was easy enough as I just threw Nyra at their heads, one-shot killed them, and head up there with [Portal] to gather Nyra and the collateral. My ‘Throw’ skill was certainly helpful in that regard.
I’m not sure if Thieves are able to detect each other when they both have ‘Stealth’ activated, but with mine at a higher level than theirs, I was able to sneak behind and off them quietly. I only kept one alive, the Whisper who goes by Luke.
When I catch him, I take us to the cave where I killed the Toxic Troll with [Portal], a secluded place where no other people would come to interrupt us, and after checking my map, there weren’t any monsters or other living beings in the area.
With the two of us alone and Luke caught off-guard, I first take initiative by casting [Soundproof] and pin him to the ground.
“Gah! W-What’s going on?! Where are—”
Koki!
“Aaaaaaugh!”
I make Luke immobile by breaking all of his limbs, a surprisingly easier feat to achieve now than it was with that other guy during the raid last night. His pained cries for help go unanswered as it bounces around the barrier by the Null Spell while I lock him in place with the tendrils from ‘Darkness Manipulation.’ I use Nyra to cut and tear every layer of clothing on him until he’s left in his briefs, completely stripped of his gear, weapons, and the like.
Now defenseless and held against his will, I turn him over to lay on his back. His eyes widen when he sees me after I made a ball of light above me by chanting ‘Create Light,’ brightening the cave some. If it’s like ‘Create Sand’ and ‘Create Water,’ I thought this might be a fundamental spell for Holy Magic and decided to take a shot at it, producing pleasant results.
“Y-You! The fucking Demongenerate! How did you—”
“Shut it.” I give him a good stomp on one of his broken limbs, eliciting cries of pain as I add weight into it. “Let’s cut to the chase. You may already know who I am, and I know you’re Luke, a violet-ranked adventurer with the Whisper class, and a faithful follower of the White Rapture. You will cooperate and tell me what you know about your cult, and if you know what’s good for you, you won’t lie about any information you’ll give me, or there will be severe consequences.”
“Like I’d say anything to the likes of you, human traitor!”
My ‘Sadistic Smile’ grows once more. “We’ll see about that. Now, question one, what is your goal sneaking around in Dondegarm?”
“…”
“Already not cooperating, huh? All right, then.” I then take Nyra to slowly and smoothly cut open where one of his arms is broken. Luke screams in agony once more as the wound is bone-deep and draws blood.
Wait, that’s what you were ‘trembling’ about?
I roll my eyes and shake my head before I use many purplish-black tendrils from ‘Darkness Manipulation’ to quickly organize the collateral into three piles: corpses, weapons, and bags of all kinds. I then use [Storage] to put the corpses and weapons away, but pull one of the bloodied bags from the pile to search its contents.
“Yep, it’s just as ‘Size Up’ described. These guys had White Rapture’s signature cult robes and gear, and it looks like they keep their adventurer cards in here, too … it’s just as Eugus and Ms. Zelshen said at the orientation.”
One of the things that were mentioned in the lecture was that if adventurers suddenly die for some reason, no matter what rank they were before, all of the cards change from their current colored rank to gray. The gold writing also fades into black like ink as well. Going through some of the adventurers’/cultists’ cards, they all turned gray and black after their deaths.
“We’re supposed to report these things to the guild as soon as possible, but …”
“Right, let’s quickly see what we got first after I gather the cards …”
I gathered all of the cards I can get before putting the bags into [Storage] as well, but not before using one of their stored money pouches to keep the cards inside and put it in my pocket. I then [Clean] the whole backlot as well as myself and Nyra before sheathing her. I feel like I just cleaned up a murder scene … or a genocide.
I open the skills list again and check out my newest additions. From what I’m witnessing, I’m starting to question the validity of my LUCK for how good of a break this is.
~~
I’ll try to keep what I found short. First off, ‘Insightful Mapping’ is basically the necessary mechanic in every RPG game, allowing me to view a map only I could see that spans as far as my current mana capacity, 1 kilometer [~3,280 feet or over half a mile] for every 100 of my total MP. At my current level with the total MP being over 10,000, I can expand my range of mapping to an area over 100 kilometers [~328,000 feet or 62 miles].
If that isn’t something by itself, I can combine the functions of certain other skills to see where everything is. People, monsters, maybe even treasure if there’s a skill for that, and then some. If I combine this with the newly acquired ‘Detect’ skill, allowing me to sense the presence of people nearby without relying on magic, something that even overrides the ‘Stealth’ skill, I could see where the inhabitants of the whole city displayed as colored dots on a holographic-like, three-dimensional map. Add my ‘Size Up’ skill in the mix, and I could make out which dots have the ‘White Rapture Brother’ and ‘White Rapture Sister’ titles that are indicated in a different color. This would make finding the remaining cultists blending in Dondegarm a whole lot more efficient.
My other new skills, ‘Skill Point Conversion,’ ‘Class Authority,’ and ‘Loyal Accomplice’ are also very interesting, but I’ll go over what those are in another time. For now, to minimize detection, I keep my magical aura completely hidden with ‘Hide Magic’ and took an extra measure in hiding my name in another window with ‘Status Sorting,’ showing the display in my status as (N/A).
Just as a sort of experiment I take out my new adventurer’s card. When I look at where one’s name is indicated, disturbingly enough, it shows as completely blank, but my class and everything else is unchanged.
“Yeah, these identification-changing skills are scary …” I come to that conclusion as I put my card away.
Anyway, add all of those earlier-mentioned skills and ‘Stealth,’ I’m practically invisible. With additional preparations set and the backlot cleaned of the events that took place, I get out of it the same way I came in. No one notices me as I step out of the alleyway, just as I predicted, and I make my move to begin my sudden stealth-assassination mission. I aim to get the remaining cultists hidden in the city—that I counted 7 when I checked the map, making a total of 65 that were lingering in Dondegarm if I include those that I killed moments ago—eliminated before the feast. There weren’t any others outside of the walls when I expanded the map, so I don’t need to worry about those possibly camping out for the time being.
~~
20 minutes in Raiza’s time later, the mission was a bigger cinch than I thought, save for a couple of difficult hurdles. A few were scouting the area from the rooftops, and with me having my traumatic fear of heights, it was difficult avoiding myself from looking down. I don’t know how much damage I could take from falls even with my high defenses and I’m not planning to experiment on that anytime soon.
Anyway, most of these guys were Thieves, a ‘Whisper’ that’s apparently a promoted class from Thief, and a few Archers that took the higher ground for scouting. Despite my fear of heights, taking down the Archers was easy enough as I just threw Nyra at their heads, one-shot killed them, and head up there with [Portal] to gather Nyra and the collateral. My ‘Throw’ skill was certainly helpful in that regard.
I’m not sure if Thieves are able to detect each other when they both have ‘Stealth’ activated, but with mine at a higher level than theirs, I was able to sneak behind and off them quietly. I only kept one alive, the Whisper who goes by Luke.
When I catch him, I take us to the cave where I killed the Toxic Troll with [Portal], a secluded place where no other people would come to interrupt us, and after checking my map, there weren’t any monsters or other living beings in the area.
With the two of us alone and Luke caught off-guard, I first take initiative by casting [Soundproof] and pin him to the ground.
“Gah! W-What’s going on?! Where are—”
Koki!
“Aaaaaaugh!”
I make Luke immobile by breaking all of his limbs, a surprisingly easier feat to achieve now than it was with that other guy during the raid last night. His pained cries for help go unanswered as it bounces around the barrier by the Null Spell while I lock him in place with the tendrils from ‘Darkness Manipulation.’ I use Nyra to cut and tear every layer of clothing on him until he’s left in his briefs, completely stripped of his gear, weapons, and the like.
Now defenseless and held against his will, I turn him over to lay on his back. His eyes widen when he sees me after I made a ball of light above me by chanting ‘Create Light,’ brightening the cave some. If it’s like ‘Create Sand’ and ‘Create Water,’ I thought this might be a fundamental spell for Holy Magic and decided to take a shot at it, producing pleasant results.
“Y-You! The fucking Demongenerate! How did you—”
“Shut it.” I give him a good stomp on one of his broken limbs, eliciting cries of pain as I add weight into it. “Let’s cut to the chase. You may already know who I am, and I know you’re Luke, a violet-ranked adventurer with the Whisper class, and a faithful follower of the White Rapture. You will cooperate and tell me what you know about your cult, and if you know what’s good for you, you won’t lie about any information you’ll give me, or there will be severe consequences.”
“Like I’d say anything to the likes of you, human traitor!”
My ‘Sadistic Smile’ grows once more. “We’ll see about that. Now, question one, what is your goal sneaking around in Dondegarm?”
“…”
“Already not cooperating, huh? All right, then.” I then take Nyra to slowly and smoothly cut open where one of his arms is broken. Luke screams in agony once more as the wound is bone-deep and draws blood.
