The Anime Trope System: Stone vs. Viper, #6 a LitRPG (ATS)

by Alvin Atwater

  She needed to accomplish something that could make everyone acknowledge her…

  Episode 33 (Part 7)

  [First Quarter.] [Lass Street.]

  Clyde inspected his equipment, realizing that it was maybe time for an upgrade. He didn’t think too much on it, fearing that the system would award him with yet another goddamn quest. That log was going down!

  Equipment:

  * Legendary Sword: Ludicrous (Ashfall family heirloom)- +33 to attack. Fallen Angel element. Can fire raw magic from the weapon. Does magic damage. Lv. 2.

  -School uniform or casual clothes.

  -School shoes or casual shoes.

  *Necklace of Her Devotion* Item class: *One of a kind* This necklace was made with love. Unknown benefits. Has a 1% chance of triggering Enlightenment mode 1 during battle. All stats will increase by 100% during the mode .

  -Ring of Emergency Magic. (Very rare) +20% MP.

  - Dust stone armor set. (Rare). +15 to defense.

  - silver dagger- +ice and earth damage. (rare.)

  What if it was Kitome’s necklace that gave him the senses to detect and catch that arrow barehanded? He noticed Natalia mimicking what he did.

  “Onii-chan that was so cool! If Harumi doesn’t marry you after that, I will. Well, I will anyway.”

  “Onii-chan?” Airi said, raising an eyebrow, a hand on her hip.

  “She has an anime addiction,” Clyde said flatly, “ and she won’t stop calling me that.” Airi patted Clyde on his shoulder.

  “For a second there, I thought it was something more,” she said. “What’s the old saying? Age is just a number.” She laughed at Clyde’s glare then pinched his cheek. “You were carrying her on your shoulders.”

  “It’s hard to believe she’s an adult, isn’t it,” Clyde deadpanned. He walked over to Harumi, uneasy with her silence. “Are you good? No, that was a stupid question. The hoody guy caught you off guard. All of us really. But…” he whispered in her ear. “Are you sure that you want to keep your true power from Airi?”

  Harumi blushed.

  “Am I… that obvious, Clyde?”

  Clyde flashed her a blank stare.

  “I’m pretty sure you would’ve wiped the floor with that guy.” He almost put his arm around her, but remembered this wasn’t a leisurely walk. As if to confirm his thoughts, enemies rushed toward them.

  One looked like a brown squirrel the size of a motorbike, the other six were level sixty-two miasblins. How long was it since things felt…like patrols and dungeons again?

  Squirrel

  Level: 64

  Type: Monster

  Work under: demon lord spawn.

  Special: full charge.

  Weakness: Fire, metal, wind.

  Resistances: earth

  Secret: wishes the minotaurs would rape him instead of the humans.

  [Your party has entered combat!]

  [Alice activated Raid ender!]

  Clyde’s eager-to-fight smile faded as his life mate’s death sphere instantly killed the enemies.

  [Battle completed. Victory! Reward: 13,000 EXP! $4900.]

  Mouth agape, along with the others, Clyde shook his head. At this rate, he’ll never get to fight. Alice winked and gave everyone the peace sign.

  “Anyone else think we’re a little overpowered for this?” Clyde said.

  “You’re just jealous that you didn’t beat everyone to the punch,” Airi said. She grabbed Alice’s hand. “That was Raid ender. Can you…teach me that?”

  “Humans can’t learn it,” the half-demoness said, swatting away Airi’s hand.

  During the next encounter, Harumi instantly one-shot everything with a Field-spanning lightning storm. The young man had never seen so much lightning in one spot.

  “I won’t be outdone,” Toru said during the fourth encounter. Sadly, he ignored Clyde’s orders to hold. The minotaur easily stunned and stripped him. She managed to get three bounces before Alice blasted her backward with a Raid-crushing beam.

  [Yulie’s HP dropped to 130%]

  She stood.

  “You! Go find your own man. He’s mine!”

  Toru’s dressing speed probably couldn’t be matched. Clyde gave him a look of disapproval.

  “A novice move there,” Airi said. “Never run ahead without actually looking at who you’re going to face. Monster girls don’t go down so easily.”

  “I know,” Toru snapped. “I’ve fought plenty. I just wanted the kill—anyway, enough talk. Kill her!”

  [Toru used Brawl shout! 20% boost to attack and fighting spirit.]

  Minotaur mini-boss. Sure, no collar this time, but Clyde and the others could wear down that level one hundred thirty bulk.

  The minotaur dodged all but one of Alice’s sword swings. A sudden thrust forward and her blade plunged through the monster’s chest. Unfortunately for the twin-tailed girl, it missed the heart.

  [Yulie’s HP dropped to 100%]

  The minotaur bashed the half-demoness to the side with tremendous strength.

  [Alice’s HP has dropped to 450%]

  Harumi moved in to heal while Airi entered the fray. A blur, she dodged the minotaur’s attacks then jumped on top of her head.

  “Why you bitch!” Yulie barked, but her fist missed. That’s when Clyde noticed the axe buckled to her waist for the first time. She pulled it from some kind of scabbard and swung. And missed. There was no way she could hit Airi.

  [Airi activated Druidic lightning.]

  When the green lightning struck, Yulie howled, dropping her axe, falling to a knee. Clyde flashed stepped, beating Toru to the killing blow. Or what he thought was going to be a killing blow. The sword plunge to the neck didn’t do the trick.

  [Yulie’s HP has dropped to 1%]

  A familiar hoody-wearing figure teleported in the middle of the fray, grabbed the minotaur, and Jumped. It happened so fast, Clyde’s brain seemed to process it a split-second after the perpetrator left.

  [Enemy has activated Stabilized healing.]

  [Enemy had fled!]

  “That happened,” Clyde said then frowned as Natalia climbed back onto his shoulders.

  “A right hand that did nothing,” Natalia said. “Everything’s too weak.”

  “What is he, a hero of justice for the minotaurs?” Alice said. “I think I’ve had enough for the night, let’s go.”

  “Same,” Harumi said.

  The group started for the hotel with no objections. Tear’s words returned to him: does a General fight. Fuck that. Clyde had a range of skills that he wanted to evolve. There was no way he’d get one-upped by his party members.

  Sure, they had to level as well. He could…solo a patrol and grind that way. From what he examined, his skills gained less experience unless he repeatedly used them to killed enemies. If a party member made the kill, the amount of experience received, for skills, was reduced.

  That dawned like a revolution to Clyde upon discovery.

  **

  First Quarter, Hotel Street….

  Ming waited for him to appear in the precise spot. After a brief flicker of light, her prey dropped right into her stun circle. It took her five minutes to draw on the pavement, but the embedded magic did its job. He didn’t seem to make any noises from the electricity, except a single grunt. The hoody-wearing person fell to a knee, dropping the minotaur.

  The impact woke the creature up. It took one look at the person, ripped his pants off, and began a merciless rape.

  Ming’s mouth shifted from agape to grimacing. The extended stun her circle dished out would more than likely last another forty-five minutes.

  “You single-minded creature, stop,” he snapped, but the monster girl continued on. “Why can’t I move…How did I get caught into this?”

  If Ming had more power, her chances of predicting the movements of a threatening enemy to her Stone would go up. Still, seeing the future briefly had its perks. The booby trap was…. well. She dropped the oncoming pun, shaking her head in disgust.
Why were these creatures so…Why did they do this?

  Ming knew very little about monster girls, but the potential in them was so high. Some were already secretly integrated into society, yet still couldn’t rid themselves of the instinct to violate a man. And to add further insult to injury, declared him husband. Monsters…were just weird, crazy, and strange.

  “I’ve got a job to finish, so you won’t be finishing,” she said. She was about fifty yards away from the scene. Aiming a hand at the duo, she cast.

  [Ming activated Non-battle spell: Cosmic Bind!]

  Several tendrils of magic poured from her hands and wrapped around both the minotaur and the hoody-wearing person. The raping still didn’t stop. He was still inside of her.

  Ming glowered and turned, waiting for the others. She knew they’d be arriving in moments. A climatic moan from the minotaur pierced the air.

  “You’re my husband now,” she told the hoody-man. “And you filled me up nicely.”

  “Just what the hell is wrong with this world,” Ming said softly, though she couldn’t help but daydream being the wife of the Stone in addition to being his prophet. In it, she held their child in her hands. Clyde smiled at her. “Stupid romantic mangas. That never happens in real life.”

  She folded her arms and harrumphed. She felt like she had fallen—a loved champion of Stone-Tokken, with many fans. Famous author and artist of the Loli Saga light novels and mangas.

  However, saving the world was more important. And maybe her childish dreams. If he had to be shared, she needed to get her time with him. She was the prophet. They should be talking on a daily basis and a lot. Well…maybe she wasn’t there yet. Still useless…

  Episode 34 (Part 1): Tides.

  10:24 PM…

  Clyde and the party were grouchy, frustrated, and tired. Those feelings melted away like butter when they noticed an impossible scene ahead. The young man almost rubbed his eyes to make sure his brain wasn’t fucking with him.

  Beneath a shining street light, Ming sat on the sidewalk, just a short distance from the hoody-wearing attacker and the minotaur girl he rescued. They were tied up with strange purple magic, which reminded the young man of a lightsaber, that is, if it was incredibly bendable. He felt her magic, strong magic, jolting around the captured duo like an angry hornet.

  “This magic,” Airi said, being careful not to touch it, while inspecting with a connoisseur’s eye.

  Clyde nodded and smiled.

  “Once again Ming, you show just how impressive you are. Meanwhile, we—”

  “You mean it?” Ming said, hopping up, and nearly diving into him. “I’m not useless?”

  The young man gave her a skeptical look.

  “Whoever said you were useless?” he said.

  “This is an indefinite, self-producing, form of magic,” Alice said as she knelt to inspect the binding. “Good work. It would’ve been a disaster if this one remained free. He almost killed our Harumi from a distance.”

  Ming’s eyes glistened and lit up. A compliment from Alice is as rare a legendary item in this world. Maybe even rarer. She stepped back, one eye red, one eye blue, sparkling.

  “I probed his mind but can’t get through the block,” she said. “And I’m not touching that hoody after he… Gross. I put them both to sleep to stop the bickering. The minotaur girl declared him husband. And she’s probably going to be pregnant. I don’t know how monster girl seeding works.”

  Clyde’s eyes widened.

  “Okay, back up, back up,” Clyde said. “Tell us from the beginning.”

  Ming did. Afterwards, the group had thoughtful expressions on their faces, some nodding. Clyde made a mental note to level the shit out of his prophet. The prompt smacked him in the face with a dose of Satovian reality.

  [Warning: you have not met the relationship requirement to rank up your prophet. She needs to be at friend closer level one or above.]

  Of course. Ha! Did he expect this shit to be easy? Of course not! Oh, but it is.

  “You’re on your way to being the greatest prophet ever,” Clyde said truthfully. Had Ming not caught the sniper, they wouldn’t be able to step outside without fear of getting an arrow to the head. “This is where Tear will come into play. Ming, do you mind if I let her take over the interrogation?”

  “Of course,” she said.

  Alice dialed her before Clyde’s hand was halfway to his pocket. He narrowed his eyes a little. She stuck her tongue out then smiled.

  Clyde walked over to the hoody guy and against Ming’s protests, pulled it back. The young man looked to be his age, with pointy ears and light-blue hair. Just, who the hell was this guy?

  **

  After showering and dressing, Clyde wasted no time heading to where Tear and the others held the captives. A delayed prompt sitting at the corner of his mind’s eye finally caught his attention.

  [Your Ki has increased!]

  [Tear’s crests are: Spirit, Passion, and Love.]

  [Life: 2. Lightning: 2. Heart: 3.]

  [ Strength:1. Passion:2. Energy: 1.]

  [Soul: 4. Command: 5. Radiance: 4.]

  [Vitality: 5. Speed: 5. Aura: 5.]

  [Mystery: 1. Power: 1 Ambition: 1]

  [Submission: 1 Unpredictable: 1 Spark: 1]

  [ Rain: 1 Spirit: 1 Love: 1]

  [You have started the learning of Area sense 1. You will be able to detect all enemies within a vicinity. You will gain a Mini-map to accompany your mental navigation system. Your foes will show up as red dots. Level this system up and you’ll gain more details and range. Example: yellow dots indicating tougher enemies and much more. Requirements: Energy: 2 Love: 2 Focus: 1]

  Energy from Kitome, Love from Tear, and… Focus? He’d need Maki to help him locate this mystery Ki. And have sex with her once more to unlock Dragon’s breath. A feeling deep within his gut told him that ignoring Ki-based skills would be the biggest mistake of his life. Why? What’s the true difference between Ki and magic—besides the fundamentals? Clyde tucked that question in the back of his mind to focus on the matter at hand. He will get that answered.

  “Find out anything?” Clyde asked Tear.

  “This isn’t good,” Tear said softly. “I thought I recognized the face. Ashard’s the son of Titania, the fairy queen. The only non-male monster with a human form, besides the extinct incubi.”

  “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Alice said. “Why is he here?”

  “Do you really want to know?” Tear said.

  “If Titania shows up, we may be in some trouble,” Melody said. “That’s like having my father appear.”

  “I heard Titania isn’t that bad,” Ruri said. “People who’ve met her says she’s kind and sweet.”

  “The old Titania,” Yuki said. “Have you been living under a rock, hound? The fairies were turned into monster girls. Titania is no longer same person, which is probably why he’s here.”

  “I don’t know about that,” Tear said. “He calls himself the defender of women.” She paused, hand still on his forehead. “Oh. I see. He was caught by the cult, taken in for some kind of sermon, then he signed a contract. This idiot didn’t take the time to examine it.”

  “So he signed a magical contract and is now defending the minotaurs?” Ruri said. Alice facepalmed.

  “Well, what are we supposed to do with him?” Clyde said. “I’m not getting involved with this shit.”

  They all looked at him, staring blankly. The system intervened.

  [Quest: Break the contract. This quest is mandatory and cannot be refused. Warning: he will not return home. The fairy servants demand an impossible amount of stamina—to the point that the violations were no longer enjoyable to him. Other than hating his own kind, Ashard carries no ill will.]

  [Let it be known that the demon lord of this city personally knows Titania.]

  “Fine, let’s start with breaking the contract,” Clyde said. “After that, he’s free to go.”

  “I’ve tried to brute force it,” Tear s
aid, “but it’s just not budging.”

  “Breaking it is simple,” Yuki said. “Find the grand master contract, which acts as a command center to any within the vicinity, and destroy it.”

  “Which means—”

  “You’ll have to storm the cult’s headquarters,” Yuki finished for Clyde. He grimaced.

  “Well, there’s tomorrow’s tasks,” he said. “Goddammit.”

  Everyone laughed.

  **

  Demon lord’s skyscraper…

  Leon facepalmed as his great master continued to loudly blast her anime-themed music. Piles of Loli Saga light novels, manga, and even games were all over the place. This was a disaster.

  “My lady,” he said. No answer, she ignored him while reading. This had been a one hour wait. Rage bubbled through the veins of the demon, but he did his best to hold his temper. “My lady, this is important.”

  Ignored.

  Leon wanted to die. He’d rather reincarnate into a pathetic human than deal with this… this… he didn’t know how to classify her. “Fuck this.” He turned to go, but a voice spoke. The music flipped off by itself.