I read the kill notification, it intrigued me, both the [Elder Plague Elemental] and now the [Cave Bear Cub] both had their XP converted into something else. One was a class stone and the other was a cloak. Turning away from the resealed wall I marched down to the bonfire to collect my prize.
I came to a pile of embers where in there was heavily burnt corpse and a cloak of beat skin laid loosely over it. Stepping in the coals I reached out and grabbed the bear skin cloak.
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[Flamekin Bear Pelt Cloak]
Rank Two Rare Bloodline Cloak
This item is system made as a spoil of war after slaying a level 20 rank two [Cave Bear Cub] which had been reanimated by a [Ophiocord Mushroom] a Rank Two Level 25 [Fungal Psudeo-Lich]. Bathed in flames, the initial spirit of the [Cave Bear Cub] lays dormant in this item. This allows the Sapient [Kien Noble] and his direct descendants to summon a spectral form of [Cave Bear Cub] while wearing this item.
Effects:[System Generated], [Divine Symbol], [Warlord's Aura], [Flamekin] and [Summon Spirit: Cave Bear]
Item Allegiance: [Blood of Kien]
-[System Generated]
This item is system generated by absorbing the XP of a Kill marking this item as a Spoil of War. This item may be repaired only by sacrificing the XP from Kills.
-[Divine Symbol]
This item is a Divine Symbol of the [Daemon of Protection and The Depths]. This item is intricately tied to the Conceptual Plains of [Protection] and [The Depths]. Small pieces of this item can be torn off and granted to mortal followers. This item will ascend the ranks every time [Kien Noble] does.
-[Warlord's Aura]
This item inspires fear in all that contest it's owners authority. In those that follow it's owner they gain a morale boost
-[Flamekin]
Grants fire resistance and the ability to manipulate pre-existing fire.
-[Summon Spirit: Cave Bear]
This effect is a Item Allegiance Locked. When the previous condition is met it allows the user to summon a spectral form of a [Cave Bear] at this items current form of power the specter is a [Cave Bear Cub]. Summoning the Spectral form costs: 25 Mana and has [200] hit points.
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Honestly worth it, thinking about placing it on my golems shoulders the item expanded to the perfect length. Throwing it over my golems shoulder I saw two little clasps that hooked up to the rock. Rereading the effects of the item I smiled, it was a fucking epic piece of gear and looked badass on my armor.
"Yawwwwn" aw shit the fight must of taken longer then I thought. Shrugging off the sleepiness I walked back to the ruin that I had been. Arriving at it I saw my club handle sticking out of a pile of rubble. Picking it up and molding it into my golems right arm, storing it, I went back to my cave.
Entering, the cave making sure there were no holes to the outside cave besides the air cave I exited my Golem and pulled out my nice silk blanket, and some leftovers. Chewing thoughtfully before swallowing, I thought back for just a moment.
Not even a full month ago, I was in summer vacation, pretty soon here I would have been going to my final year of highschool. I thought back to my friends many of them had been going off to vacations or to go see family. Of those that had stayed I had found none of them.
It was a sobering thought, that there was the very likely chance that many or even none of them had made it. A spark of hatred stirred in me, thoughts of them dieing at the hands of invaders stirred up inside me. Once I was out of this tutorial I was going on a Crusade, a Crusade against those that dare covet my and humanity's home world I would [Banish the Invaders].
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[Ophiocord Mushroom]'s P.o.v
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In a immaculate garden, surrounded by my brethren, my fellow mushrooms I contemplated my challenger. I had received a notification from the system a while ago.
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[Alert!]
You have been chosen as a Secret Boss, if you or one of you subordinates slays the Challenger [Kien Noble] you can usurp his spot in the tutorial.
Or
You can potentially ally with the challenger, doing so will preserve you and subordinates and you will become a boss of a different sapients tutorial. However the challenger may only have one allied tutorial faction.
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My whole life had been a lie, I couldn't tell if my whole life and my actions had been a complete fabrication or not. My anger had been seething for many days, and it had taken a full week secluded in this garden to calm me.
Now that anger had grown uproariously in past day or so. The Challenger [Kien Noble] had allied with the cursed spiders, one of the factions immune to my fungi, and had wiped out the Ants and most recently the plague infested rats.
Now he was banging down my gates, he had already slain my 4th, 5th, and now 3rd Hosts. Rapidly draining my power. Worst of all my fungal spores were useless against him while he was sealed off in that weirdly shaped golem. He kept growing in strength as I weakened!
Staring up wards I locked eyes with my reflection, I had manged to safely take the only perfect mirror in the whole town where I was raised. Staring back at myself I saw the reflection of my father.
He had raised me unknowing of my true nature, he had been a good father I think. That was until he chopped me up and fermented my original form. Him and his stupid neighbors drank in the brew which had very small amounts of my still live fungi. My death had been a near thing, but in the Aftermath I thrived.
The species of my father [Cavern-Elf] had a light almost unnerving complexion and possesed the ability to consume cave Flora and gain the properties from them. That ability my first host still persevered.
One of my many branches of consciousness blared something. They had found a way into the sleeping place of the challenger.
A unnatural smile appeared on my face, he was out of his golem and was vulnerable.
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Back to Kien
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I awoke to something suffocating me. I tried to open my eyes. Yet I couldn't, I felt hands closing in around and a insidious laughter booming in my ears.
I tired to move and yet my body felt like a vice grip I struggled desperately to escape the hold. I couldn't move, and soon I couldn't breath my lungs refused to breath in.
Desperately I tried my last resort collapsing the rock pocket on myself as I lost fell unconscious.
As my body fell asleep I felt a disconnection between me and well me. I stared down at my own writhing body, I saw stands of fungi stretched across my body. My body was covered in the mushroom and my last resort had failed. I saw my body move as the fungi acted as sort of suit the forced my body to move.
My form wavered for a moment as an intense seething rage overcame my body and then I saw it, like tiny thin threads lacing throughout the world focusing on each one I saw flashes of what they met.
I saw a flash of Anastasia sleeping in a silk hammock. Next I saw my older brother jerry rigging a trap in a forest. I saw my eldest brother shanking a goblin in a ruin.
I saw my Father throwing a tomahawk through a skeletons head. Then I saw a strand imbedded in the fungi pulsing. Reaching out with my spectral hand I latched onto the thread and I saw a figure.
A pale humanoid with long 6 inch ears protruding like that of a bat, its skin shallow and pale, and it's eyes a obsidian black. Snaking throughout its body was fungi, and when it locked eyes with a flash of I intense hatred and as it opened its mouth to scream I saw a mouth filled with mushrooms.
Then I tore the thread, it stretched but it refused to break. Grabbing it with my other hand I pulled and I pulled with all my might and it snapped and my body dropped hard on a rock and I snapped back to my body.
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I awoke to something slapping me and a mental probing. I tried to remember what had happened. Surging to my feet, I realized I had regained my ability to move.
Looking around I saw Anastasia, I had begun to pick up the little Spiders mannerisms and I could see that she was scared.
'Hey, Boss You Okay?' she asked worriedly.
Then I saw a notification from the system.
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[Alert!]
You have been Infected by a [Ophiocord Mushroom].
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[Alert]
Your body functions had been damaged by the [Ophiocord Mushroom].
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[Alert!]
You have gained a [Survivor] type class. A [Survivor] class is a class that is gained from extraordinary survival of unusual circumstances and are usually unique.
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[Class Gained]
You have gained the class [Fungal Magus]
-[Fungal Magus]
Rank Two Epic Class
This class is a gained by taking over a mushroom that tried to take over your body the mushroom species [Ophiocord] is a unique species existing no where else in the mortal plains. You gain the powers of the [Ophiocord], allowing you to reanimate fallen enemies temporarily. You also gain a false trait [Fungal Royalty] allowing you to control other fungal species.
Inherent skills: [Fungal Exoskeleton], [Animate Undead: Fungal], [Fungal Spores], [Blessing of Life], and [Floramancy]
Inherent traits: [Physic Connection] & [Fungal Royalty: Usurper]
Inherent Boon: [Glutton: Flora]
-[Fungal Exoskeleton] Lvl: 1
Covering your body is a second skin of fungal tissue that can boost your physical stats temporarily and grants a passive boost to regeneration.
-[Animate Undead: Fungal] Lvl: 1
You can animate upto 5 newly dead enemies, the duration of these undead are dependent on decomposed they are, at a certain point they will degrade and you will lose there service.
-[Fungal Spores] Lvl: 1
You emit an invisible cloud of mushroom spores and allow you to expand your field of perception and they will alert you potential, threats, hosts, and traps.
-[Blessing of Life] Lvl: 1
You can manipulate micro climates and cause minor changes in mushrooms DNA that allow them to survive better, or enhance their properties.
-[Floramancy] Lvl: 1
You can expend Mana to manipulate pre-existing plant life and temporarily enlarge them. You can also grant a very minor boost to a plants records and growth.
-[Physic Connection]
Class Trait
Your body is completely immune to attempt of fungal manipulation of the same rank or lower, but is weak to higher rank mushrooms. You can also sense physic communications.
-[Fungal Royalty: Usurper]
Class Trait
To all fungal species you are seen as Royalty and they are honor bound to serve under you. To Flora you posses a diplomatic immunity as along as you do not harm those in an ecosystem.
[Glutton: Flora]
Class Boon
You gain the ability to absorb Flora species for their inherent magical abilities. [0/5]
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Looking down I could infact see a very thin second skin completely covering my body. However I could reach out and control it allowing me to retract it.
Then I felt it a thrumming in the air, the mushrooms around me, their intelligence rudimentary but I could feel impressions of there intent. They saw me as a king.
Reading through the traits I saw just how good this class was and it's avenue of power. Essentially I got a strength boost, a regeneration boost, and the ability to raise the dead on a much smaller scale then that of the [Ophiocord Mushroom] but I also could eat plants and absorb their abilities. Even capped at five it really was an Epic Class