damaine_n

Into the Multiverse

Added 2024-02-10 12:57:46 +0000 UTC

CHAPTER 2

“Give me a second, mom!”

Damien said aloud as he frantically opened up his Status Page and pressed on the Job Select button, opening up a pop-up with 3 boxes.

[JOB SELECTION]

[Choose a major Job to specialize in. Note; that other major Jobs may not be selectable.]

[PICK YOUR CHOICE!]

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[FIGHTER]

Additional +2 to STR and END Stats per level

Gain Skill [LION’S ROAR]

Gain Skill [SLASH]

Gain Skill [DASH]

Increased Proficiency with Close-Range Weapons

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[MAGUS]

Additional +2 to INT and PER Stats per level

Gain Skill [MAGIC BOLT]

Gain Skill [MANA CONTROL]

Gain Skill [MEDITATE]

+100% Magic Damage while using Magus Weapons

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[ROUGE]

Additional +2 to AGI and DEX Stats per level

Gain Skill [WEAKNESS BREAK]

Gain Skill [STEALTH]

Gain Skill [HASTE]

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With three options in front of him, he bit his lip in thought as he compared the three jobs and their perks before tapping on the [ROUGE]job. AGI and DEX would be very useful, and STRand END can be trained anyways.

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[CONGRATULATIONS!]

[A JOB Starter Pack will be sent to the INVENTORY.]

[Gained Skill [WEAKNESS BREAK]!]

[Gained Skill [STEALTH]!]

[Gained Skill [HASTE]!]

[Good Luck, Gamer. May Fortune Favor the Bold.]

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[NEW WORLD MISSION QUEST GAINED!]

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[QUEST]

[SUSPICIOUS…]

[DIFFICULTY: 3 STARS]

[DESCRIPTION: Find out the identity of this “mother” of yours.

[REQUIREMENT:]

[Find out who is your “mother”. ( )]

[? ? ?* ( )]

[TIME LIMIT: 2M, 57S]

[REWARD: 50 Multi Credits, 50 EXP, ???*, ???*]

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“Inventory!”

He whispers as a pop-up of what looks to be a Minecraft inventory page appeared, with a 10 by 10 table with some of the boxes already occupying some items. His eyes glanced at them as the system gave him the information.

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[INVENTORY]

[IRON DAGGER]

[THROWING KNIVES X10]

[MUTLI CREDITS X10]

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Another set of information went into his head as he willed the Iron Dagger in his Inventory with his hand’s palm open. In an instant, sparks of white erupted from his palm as it molded into the Iron Dagger.

Gripping its handle, he took a second to swipe the air around him before nodding. The dagger was as light as a feather, maybe due to his 8 STR.

Then, with his knife behind his back, he opened the door to instantly get baffled at the appearance of the woman in front of the door.

The doppelganger looked identical to his mother, with the same mole under her left eye, and her short stature. A complete identical 1:1 copy, but the expression of her face was totally off.

“What’s the matter, dear? You look awfully pale.”

He flinched when her hand caressed his cheek. His Perception stat was screaming at him, this was not a normal human being, the feeling of evil and danger overwhelmed his emotion of longing.

Trusting his senses, he gently grabbed the hand that was on his cheek, pushing his emotions down before swiping his dagger towards the neck of the being in front of him.

*CLANG!*

[INSTINCTS] activated involuntarily as he sensed the danger, quickly backing off and shut the door. This caused him to barely escaping with his life as claws rushed at him the moment his dagger bounced off the being’s neck, and was stopped a few centimeters from his face due to the door stopping the blow.

“I’m impressed…”

The door exploded as the being in front of him revealed her true form, an ugly monster with bat-like wings erupting from her back, her 6 eyes staring into his.

“To think that a half-blood like you noticed the difference… I even altered your memories to forget that your worthless parents died by my hands... How did you notice?”

Her sharp, disgusting voice grated in his head as he stayed silent, his arm holding onto the dagger shaking at the near-death experience. That was when he realized that [GAMER’S MIND] didn’t provide him with the emotion suppression that the original had.

Sensing another attack coming from the tensing of the monster’s muscles, he ducked as it pounced towards him with both claws.

Rolling away, he leaned on his bed as he squelched the fear of dying, and the sound of his heartbeat beating fiercely before using his active analysis skill on it.

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[OBSERVE]

[NAME: Alecto, the Angry]

[LEVEL: 10]

[HP: 120 / 120]

[MP: 420 / 450]

[RACE: FURY]

[DESCRIPTION: One of the Furies hired by Hades, Alecto gets off by torturing her victim, stabbing and healing them over and over again until her interest dies out before ripping the soul out of her victim.]

[STATUS: SUPPRESION — All Stats -99%]

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Well, at least he had a name, even though the color of it was yellow. And he just heard a familiar ding, meaning he just completed one of the requirements for the Quest.

She simply tilts her head and stared at him with interest.

“… Interesting, you dodged it.”

Flexing her claws, she had a smirk on her face.

“No demigod could have easily dodged that so quickly, especially one your age. It was like you knew when I would attack…”

His senses blared as [INSTINCTS] once again kicks in, this time an attack coming towards his right eye. He tilts his head as a black bolt burst from Alecto’s hand towards his eye’s previous position.

“Prediction? No, this is more than just mere guess. Clairvoyance? A spawn of Apollo?”

She questions herself, barely serious against him. Fuck, she was playing with her food at this point. While she was in her own world, he quickly brought up the Skill Page and looked at his new skills.

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[SKILL]

[WEAKNESS BREAK]

{LEVEL 1 / 100 (0%)}

[GRADE: LEGENDARY]

[DESCRIPTION: A Rogue knows best of weaknesses to exploit.]

[EFFECT: Deals x2.5 STR damage upon hitting a “weakness” area; Temporary stuns the target for 0.5 seconds.]

[COST: 50 MP per Weakness Break]

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[SKILL]

[STEALTH]

{LEVEL 1 / 100 (0%)}

[GRADE: LEGENDARY]

[DESCRIPTION: A Rogue hides in the shadows, and strikes at the perfect opportunity.]

[EFFECT: +1% Concealment when Hide in Plain Sight, 5% Concealment when Hiding in Behind Cover; +1 STR during STEALTH indefinitely or after exiting STEALTH for a SECOND.]

[COST: 5 MP per MINUTE]

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[SKILL]

[HASTE]

{LEVEL 1 / 100 (0%)}

[GRADE: LEGENDARY]

[DESCRIPTION: A Rogue is as swift as the wind, as flexible as water.]

[EFFECT: +5 DEX and +5 AGI upon Skill activation for 30 SECONDS.]

[COST: 10 MP per Haste]

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He then opened his Inventory to see the stats on his Iron Dagger.

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[INVENTORY]

[IRON DAGGER]

[GRADE: COMMON]

{DURABILITY: 99 / 100}

[DESCRIPTION: A normal dagger that is a good starting weapon for aspiring rogues.]

[EFFECT: +15 STR when wielding the dagger; Deals x2 damage upon hitting a “weakness”.]

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Doing the mental math, he had 8 STR, and 70 MP left. He will wait for the opportunity to get behind the Fury where her “weakness” was, he somehow knew it instinctively, and then he will activate all his skills to do… 23 STR plus 1 and another plus 1 times 2.5 and then an additional times 2… 125 damage. Good enough.

Quickly opening his Status Page, he placed one point into STR before dodging a slash of black energy that carved the walls of his room, leaving a gnarly long slash mark on the walls.

“Yes… Keep dodging, make this fun for me, will you?”

With no other choice, he activated [HASTE], feeling his body lighten as he ducked and weaved the torrent of black slashes heading towards him.

He dashed out of his room and ran down the stairs as bolts of black energy tracked him down, trailing behind him.

Manifesting a few throwing knives from his Inventory, he felt them rest between his fingers before he threw them towards the 4 tracking bolts of energy. A few missed, but all 4 contacted the knives before exploding in a black mist.

Using this opening, he activated [STEALTH], feeling his body shimmer slightly as he hid behind the kitchen counter with his heart beating rapidly.

Hearing the wood of the staircase creaking, he slows down his breathing as footsteps drew nearer into the living room.

“Hmm… Hiding now, are we?”

His heartrate spiked as he felt her presence coming towards the kitchen counter, humming at the game of hide and seek.

He heard the footsteps walk past the kitchen counter. A few seconds go by, her footsteps getting further and further.

*SHLIRK!*

PAIN!

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[HP: 36 / 60 ]

[STATUS: BLEEDING– HP Drain (3) per MINUTE]

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He lets out a scream as he keeled on the ground, his arms clutching the bloody hole in his stomach. The monster gave out a deranged laugh.

“That is a curious skill you have there, I almost walked past you if it weren’t for your frantic heartbeat, dear.”

He barely dodged another bullet made of energy if it weren’t for his [INSTINCTS] skill and his high Perception stat, rolling away with his hand full of blood. Getting up with his dagger on one hand and his wound on the other, he swiped something from the counter and placed it into his Inventory before the two stared at each other.

He had one shot to win this. The monster prepared a dozen bolts of energy, floating beside her. The two of them waited for the imaginary signal.

Blood drips onto the floor. GO!

With his dagger in reverse grip, he activated [HASTE], increasing his speed and hand-eye coordination as he dashed towards Alecto, who fired half of her readied bolts of energy. He ducked and weaved through the storm, getting hit in non-vital areas, he simply grits his teeth and tolerates the pain before getting close to the monster.

Alecto didn’t predict him to rush towards him even after taking some hits, so she used everything she had and fired, this time at an angle so that he wouldn’t be able to dodge it entirely.

Maybe it was the adrenaline pumping, or the fear of dying to a monster, but he suddenly felt a shot of power surge in him. A primal urge to rip this demon back to where it came from.

[?????]

All of a sudden, time slows down, not into a halt, but a slowed fixed rate. He felt stronger. Faster. Better. POWERFUL. The pain in his abdomen faded away, he wasn’t focused on that. His eyes were eyeing on the slowed down bullets approaching him.

Adjusting his dagger, he fluidly dodged all of the dangers without grazing any parts of his body before going in for the kill.

He could see the shocked eyes of the Fury as he rolled over her claws that she shot out in a panic, and faced her back.

[STEALTH]

[WEAKNESS BREAK]

With all his strength, he struck her back with a blur, just between her demented wings.

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24 + 1; * 2.5; * 2 = 125 DMG

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Her back explodes in a gruesome red. She screeched in pain.

Time resumed its natural course as a yellow spark of electricity shimmered around Alecto’s body. [WEAKNESS BREAK]’s stun effect was applied, white foam painting her mouth as she tried to oh’ so desperately move her body.

Gripping the handle tighter, he reeled back his blade before plunging it once more into the monster’s back, pushing through her spine with inhuman strength as the blade reappeared poking out of her chest.

Without a single word, he pulled out the dagger, causing blood to spew out of the wound as her body drops to the ground. A second later, she bursts into golden motes.

Breathing heavily, he suddenly slumps to the ground like a puppet without strings, his adrenaline finally running out. He ignored the ding in his head as he brought out the item that he took from the counter.

A bottle of pepper. Looks like he didn’t need to use it. He placed it into his inventory for now.

His mind wandered. What was that sudden time slowing thing that happened, though? Maybe his Skill Page has it?

Regulating his breathing, he checked his HP to only get surprised that it was full.

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[HP: 80 / 80]

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Putting that aside for now, he opened his Quest Page.

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[QUEST]

[SUSPICIOUS…]

[DIFFICULTY: 3 STARS]

[DESCRIPTION: Find out the identity of this “mother” of yours.

[REQUIREMENT:]

[Find out who is your “mother”. (X)]

[Survive and Defeat the Fury. (X)]

[REWARD: 50 Multi Credits, 50 EXP, Skill [TENACITY]*, [DUNGEON] function*]

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[ [ [ LEVEL UP!!! ] ] ]

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He opened his Status Page and Skill Page together, putting them side by side.

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[STATUS]

[NAME: Damien Redgrave/Sparda]

[AGE: 10]

[LEVEL: 3 (0/100)]

[RACE: Nephilim]

[JOB: ROGUE]

[HP: 81 / 110 (2.1 HP per MINUTE)]

[MP: 6 / 110 (2.1 MP per MINUTE)]

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[PARAMETERS]

[STR: 12.0]

[END: 11.0]

[AGI: 13.0]

[DEX: 13.0]

[INT: 11.0]

[PER: 16.0]

[STAT POINTS: 0]

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[SKILLS]

[PASSIVE]

- [GAMER’S MIND] {LEVEL MAX / MAX}

- [GAMER’S BODY] {LEVEL MAX / MAX}

- [INSTINCTS] {LEVEL 2 / 20}

- [TENACITY] {LEVEL 1 / 25}

[ACTIVE]

- [OBSERVE] {LEVEL 1 / 10}

- [WEAKNESS BREAK] {LEVEL 1 / 100}

- [STEALTH] {LEVEL 1 / 100}

- [HASTE] {LEVEL 1 / 100}

- [?????] {LEVEL ??? / ???}

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… Alright, that is not ominous at all. The [?????]skill was greyed out, meaning he couldn’t tap on it at all to see its description. He tapped on [TENACITY].

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[SKILL]

[TENACITY]

{LEVEL 1 / 25 (0%)}

[GRADE: LEGENDARY]

[DESCRIPTION: Perseverance is Human’s Greatest Strength.]

[EFFECT: Once HP reaches 30% and below, Incoming Damage is reduced by 1%.]

[COST: PASSIVE]

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Holy hell, this was an OP skill at level 1. That means that at level 25, it becomes a 25% damage reduction? That’s powerful.

… He just experienced a near-death situation, against a Fury. He was surprisingly calm about it.

… Oh, fuck, he just killed a Fury. Hades’ pets. And if Hades was the ruler of the underworld —

Her sisters will know of her demise.

Getting up with panic in his chest, he quickly ran up back into his room to grab the documents and ID from earlier. Thanking whoever was responsible of him being here for the undamaged goods, he placed them into his Inventory before booking out of the house, his tired body straining itself to get him the fuck out of the crime scene.

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[STATUS]

[NAME: Damien Redgrave/Sparda]

[AGE: 10]

[LEVEL: 3 (0/100)]

[RACE: Nephilim]

[JOB: ROGUE]

[HP: 110 / 110 (2.1 HP per MINUTE)]

[MP: 110 / 110 (2.1 MP per MINUTE)]

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[PARAMETERS]

[STR: 12.0]