"What do you want?" Asked an old orange scaled female LizardFolk that was sitting around a fire.
There was a group of huts around the fire, but no one had weapons. What was going on here? Had I taken a wrong turn somewhere? No, looking back just showed me a moonlit sparsely vegetated open plain. I turned back to the group, none of them looked hostile, so I tried to start by introducing myself.
"Hey, I'm Dave, I think I am here to help?" I said with all the conviction of someone that had no clue what was going on.
"Help? Our only princess has been stolen! Can you please save her?" The old Lizardfolk woman asked.
"Wait?! You only have one?!" I asked in bewilderment.
How much work was going into the one girl! Was this going to be another three rounds? Bet she won't even be at the end there! What the hell is going on?!
"Yes, but there have been multiple princesses from all the tribes in the basin! There will be surely more to save when to reach the dragon's cave!"
Hmm, more princesses, but they came with a came full of dragons...dragons breath fire...hmmm. I wonder if I could just skip this one, it sounds like a bit of a doozy. Still, sounds like there would be a good number of women to save, and that would make my job a bit easier.
"Okay! I got this, I will go get your princess for you, just point me in the right direction!"
[Quest accepted]
[Level 3] Acquired!
[Random class reward] Activated!
[Adaptling Aspect: Beholder]
A single class? What was this about? Did the override the System did before remove my second class?
'No, the Adaptling Aspect Class is a restricted class that only allows you to use this class. You made them as concept classes, and never put them into the actual game choices because they were too overpowered, but you still liked playing them. The System is set to random so it must have been in the master list.' -Tequila.
Well, overpowered wasn't a bad thing, and from what I could remember, Beholders were giant eyes with more little eyes on tentacles. They used their eyes to fire pretty devastating beams, so I opened my charts up and took a look around at the skills. There was something wrong, but in a good way for me at least.
All the skills were unlocked, I had only six attacks, but they were all at the third and max level. This was a bit intense, and I would have nine arms, but each would have a thirty-second cooldown on each eye. I could also use the main eye for some mega beam but it had a twenty-four-hour cooldown, so no running around with my lights on.
I turned back to the old woman and pointed to the only mountain that was far off into the distance. I thanked her and told them all I would rescue their princess, and they all cheered and waved me off. I smiled as I turned, I had said that I would rescue the princess, but I never said anything about bringing them back.
I ran off into the night and put some good distance between myself and the tribe that I had just visited. I wanted to shift in the Beholder, but from what I could remember, it was pretty ugly and looked like a scary brain with a big eye and tentacles that had eyes. I just didn't think that the people would like for something like that to be going after their princes.
Then again, this was just a game, and they probably could care less if I was another dragon. I just needed to accept the mission and then everything was good for them. I wonder what NPC did after their quest was accepted and completed? Did they just sit or stand forever in the same spot? Once I was done stopping the game, I would work on unlocking the NPC from their stuck patterns, letting them live lives as well.
I was far enough now, but still a good distance from the mountain. It was time to try out this game-breaking class that I supposedly enjoyed playing. I opened up my menu and activated the transformation, and then shit got weird.
It was like my body was being pulled into an exercise ball size, many arms and legs were just slowly folding in on themselves and I was glad I didn't wait till I was at the dragons to do this. It would have been pretty bad if I were about to fight them, and I had to ask them to wait for me to finish my transformation. I would be eaten before I got a chance to try out my new moves!
Chapter 249: Slow Rolling Thoughts
Once my head had started to shrink in with the rest of my body, I had closed my eyes. The feeling was still there, and as my head sunk into my shoulders, there was a brief moment where I had no eyes to open. Then I felt a single massive eye the radius of my body grow on the upper half of my body, and then tentacles started to grow, seven of them.
When everything had stopped growing, I tried to open my eyes, but that was a mistake. Eight different views assaulted me and it was like going super cross-eyed. I closed them again and tried to open my big main one, slowly, but now it felt like I was staring down a cone.
I slowly opened each one of my eyestalks and let my mind get used to having so many different views. I found if I just relaxed, all but two of my eyestalks would look forward with my main eye, but the last two would always be looking around, giving me a three-hundred and sixty views of the area I was in.
I looked at my skills again, and this time it was a lot easier since I could divert the menu to a single eyestalk. I was able to float to the mountain and go over my skills at the same time which was a great time saver. Looking at my skill, I noticed something about the attacks, and each was set to a certain eyestalk. I would have to study these, but I had time.
While this form was surely powerful, it was slow as balls. I scanned over each attack or ray, and they were all different.
1. Charm Ray. The target must make attacks against an ally while charmed
2. Paralyzing Ray. Paralyze target.
3. Slowing Ray. The affected target loses 75% of its movement speed. This can affect up to 3 other creatures within 3m.
4. Enervation Ray. Target has decreased accuracy on attacks it makes. All attacks made against the target are done at an advantage.
5. Disintegration Ray. Dematerialize target. This overcomes magical properties.
6. Death Ray. Instant death to living targets.
7. ???. ???.
Central. Eyeon Ray. Pure energy that negates magic 1m wide by infinite
I somehow knew which eyestalk worked with which ability, but I wondered about the seventh ability. I was probably just random and improved versions of the other rays, but how did you improve a Death Ray? More Death Rays, but also was hidden like another skill, so it was anybody's guess.
The real kicker was the Eyeon Ray, real cute on my part, no wonder I like this class so much. I wondered if I shot it at the center of the world, would it blow up like in the movies? I would have to make a blank world after I finished the game so Hyde and I could go and use Bhan as target practice and have some fun with cool things we make.
I just had to get there first, and I was seriously behind everyone else, but I was still about fifteen minutes from the cave. That made me start to think about the leaders; there were five of us...why? For the first time, I really thought about it.
Twelve Zodiac worlds, five leaders, but I was sure that I needed to clear three worlds. The four of us decided that...why only four? The memory was still blocked by something, along with anything to do with the fifth Harem Leader. Was the Fifth Harem Leader Reginold? Who else could get into the game and do that?
He must have inserted some kind of memory with the blocks to make us think that there was a fifth member, but there wasn't. There was just Hyde, Bhan, Kiada, and myself. What did that mean? Was he trying to complete the worlds too and get to Aihalla for something in the Endgame?
There were way too many questions coming from this revelation and asking Mom...Tequila. I really couldn't call her that anymore, I had sex with her more than (insert big number here) times, so that was just not right. Regardless, neither she nor Dansei would be any help with this, and that's why they are staying quiet right now.
The only way I'm going to get the answers that I want is to get to the final game world. I was ten worlds i
n and there was only one world left before the final game world, and I wouldn't be messing around in it either. Whatever the game threw at me, I would destroy it, and catch up to the rest.
I had finally made it, and there was a huge hole about forty meters up, but I was down here. The rock cliff face of the mountain was almost completely vertical and offered virtually no handholds. That thought made the seven eye stocks turn on me and it got a hundred and eighty-degree view of my body. Then they all moved forward to be in the range of my main eye and gave me a look that said, you idiot.
The eyestalk pointed up, and I thought the same thing and started to rise. Of course you dumb dumb, I flew here, why wouldn't I be able to fly up. All seven of my eyestalks rolled, almost making me sick with the spinning motion.
Once I got my bearing together, I started to float up, slowly. I really didn't have a lot of speed, so I hope these dragons are not too feisty. I wasn't really the chasing type, more of the slow-rolling destruction, left a wake of death and chaos. Ah, I would be fine, I was a laser beam monster, plus there were ladies to save.
I rose up to the mouth of the cave, and I was greeted by three massive dragon heads. Oh shit! I was the size of one of their eyeballs! Well, no take backsies, I was here, time to bring the noise!
Chapter 250: Frigging Dungeons
[Charm Ray] Activated!
I hit the closet dragon, a massive red-headed beast with yellow cat-like eyes with slits for pupils. The pupils of the red dragon were now small red hearts, and the rest of the eye bled from yellow to a solid pink. The dragon took on a look of desire and lust but then turned on the green and blue that were already taking deep breaths.
The red dragon went for the green, catching it by surprise, and biting into its neck, and pushing its huge head towards the blue dragon that was mid breath, forcing it to stop. The green dragon was forced to expel fire in the other dragon's face, but it was a dragon and the fire had no effect. Still, it had pissed the blue dragon off and it attacked the green dragon, thinking it was helping.
But that wasn't the case, and when the green dragon disappeared in a shower of black particles, the red attacked. The blue was already turning back to me and never saw it coming. The red bit the blue behind the head on its neck and then clawed the blue until it shattered into the small black digital bits.
[Death Ray] Activated!
The Red dragon shrunk to a single point and disappeared. There was nothing left, not a single black bit appeared, almost like when I killed Datum and Grismald. That was new, and a bit disturbing, I wonder what it meant?
'Don't worry, it's a normal death, you just wouldn't get any experience from the kill, the particles are experience markers in the game worlds. All twelve are like this because there are varied systems, and some use experience while others use other ways. So, I assume you did the monsters this way for convenience since you like the random so much.' -Dansei
'This would be fine if I was playing for fun, but trying to beat the game for real as a normal player, even with my cheating is a real pain. It's almost like the game I created is testing me to see if I am worthy. Did you hear me before about the fifth leader?'
'Yes, and just like you assumed, we know nothing, but I don't think that is a blocked memory. There is just nothing there to remember like I never knew so there is nothing to look for in my thoughts. Blocked memories are just what they sound like, it's like something is stopping me from getting that last bit. You know that feeling of having something on the tip tongue? The same, but I know the information is there, and I can feel the block stopping me from seeing or saying things I shouldn't.' -Dansie.
That just made my suspicions about Reginold deepen, but I had people to rescue! I started to move forward until the tunnel turned. Around the corner, there were two massive bull-men with large bucklers and maces, Minotaurs, not dragons. What the actual fuck?
'Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? Is this the wrong place? I specifically remember them saying that dragons took the girls to a cave in the mountain? Why are there Minotaurs here?!'
'They didn't say what was already in the cave, and the monsters in dungeons usually stay in their areas. I'm going to just go ahead and blame this on you. I mean it's not really your fault, you made a good game!' -Dansei.
I looked back to the entrance, but it was just a dead-end, of course it was, what else would be there? This would have to be a dungeon because we can't just go for a frigging stroll through a cave without it turning into a blasted dungeon! I was starting to get really sick of me, but this was Reginold's fault for messing everything up.
This was supposed to be and run through for a bunch of Game Masters, but somehow we are the player now. I floated forward and once I was twenty meters away I blasted both Minotaurs.
[Death Ray] Activated!
[Disintegration Ray] Activated!
One disappeared into a single point and the other exploded into a shower of black bits. I continued forward, still in a foul mood, but the eight more of the two-legged cows rushed around the corner! Yes, the chances of this happening were about Murphy percent, and I fired a Charm ray at the first one, who stopped and then got trampled into black bits.
I was trying to back up fast and I fired off a Petrification Ray at the next one that took the lead, and then a Paralyzing Ray into the one just to the left of them. The effect caused them to freeze and fall, crushing the stunned one into black bits, but the other stole one tripped three.
Only ten seconds had passed and two were still rushing me so I hit the first with my Enervation Ray and dodge the first swing, which was very wide of me. The other bull-man was coming for me still, and I only had three options left.
Slowing him as a single target was a waste, and so was the Eyeon Ray, so I pointed the seventh eyestalk at the Minotaur that was just catching up with the one that missed me, and now they were both almost on me.
[Meteor Ray] Activated!
A massive magic circle filled the tunnel up to where I stood. It was similar in the magical marking the Meteor strike from the Wild Strike Class, but the size was over ten times that. Both Minotaurs tried to rush me but slammed into a transparent blue wall at the edge of the magic ring where I floated.
Behind them the other Minotaurs rushed in, the circle allowing them in. That was when the stone mountain ceiling disappeared and I could see the burning star get closer. The impact was loud, but after it was done the ceiling reappeared and the floor was unmarked.
Just another day in the fricking dungeon.
Chapter 251: Hail On Slime
I floated back around the corner, but then a bar popped up.
[Mobile Lair Creation] 25% Complete!
What? Lair? Tequila or Dansei, can you help me with this, I'm drawing a blank. I thought beholders took a long time to create a lair? Yup, a real long time, according to the Memory Download, but there is nothing about the Mobile Lair Creation.
'We have actually talked about this, so I can tell you about it. True, it normally takes a beholder three hundred years, give or take. That wasn't going to work for this idea, so we talked over the Mobile Lair Creation. It feeds off the experience you get from monsters, and since you don't use any, all the experience goes to the lair creation. Normally, you had it set to grow with you and give you more rays and access to your negative energy cone.' -Dansei.
'So, I just have to keep killing to fill up my bar, and I get better stuff? Do I have all the lair abilities of the normal beholder?'
'Yes to the first question, but no to the second, partly. Some of the abilities will be similar, but you changed and added some. There is a reason, not even you would allow any of the Adaptling Aspect Class to be played with another Class, or even played in the game at all. You should not have this, but then again, your quirk is cheating, enough said I guess. Check your rays, you should have a new one.' -Dansei.
I opened up my attacks, and scan through them, and noticed Telekinesis Ray. I started reading it, then I read it again. Then, j
ust to make sure, I read it really slow.
'Am I reading this right? I can lift up to a three-hundred-pound object or a creature. That's what it says, but then, the "a creature" part means there isn't a weight restriction on creatures? Or there would be no, a, right?'
'Virtual high five for Dave today! Good catch, that is an original design flaw, but for you, fighting against large monsters will be good! It can be used from any stalk, but it has a ten-second cooldown. Still better than your other rays, so make good use of it!' -Dansie.
Yeah, this was going to be a lot easier now, I hoped. I really shouldn't have even had the thought because when I turned the second corner of the huge tunnel...filled with slimes. Not the cute girl slimes, just amorphous blue transparent blobs with little red cores in them. They were slow, but there were around thirty of them!
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