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Chapter 140 – Jesus Almighty, What Happened to my Status Page?

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Chapter 140 – Jesus Almighty, What Happened to my Status Page?

“You have registered ‘The Cult of Elekir’ as your official guild under the All Spirit’s domain. Currently all officially registered guilds do not have access to guild interfaces and perks, but these things will be opened to you upon the opening of the Labyrinth. In the meantime, know that all guild members will be transferred over into the Labyrinth as one unit, together, when the great merging occurs. 14 of 50 Current Core Guild Members: Trey and Minions, Ashe and Minions, Izumi, Jason, Carol, Silvara, Yastiel, Lueth, Maltetious, Taen and Minions, Chris, Michael, Itunu, Aiko.”

Ah. So Alkir had been right, minions didn’t count towards the core number of guildmates one could have… though to his knowledge, the max amount of guild members had been unknown when last speaking to Alkir. Had it just been set at 50? Or would that number change?

He had no idea.

Either way, he really liked the new name. “Cult of Elekir” was a combination of Eleknar’s name and Alkir’s name, resulting in Elekir. It sounded pretty nice too, and was more representative of what they actually were – followers on an Infernal Crown and the dark goddess herself. Rivia had especially appreciated the name as she’d been the one who’d come up with it, and she’d beamed at the praise Trey had for her concerning the choice. Her happiness expanded a thousand fold beyond that when she heard Trey’d secured the 7th writ for her, and had thrown her arms around him to snag a long, drawn out, passionate kiss before squealing with excitement and bouncing over to where Ezdeath was to tell the other demoness of her luck.

As for the warning Alkir had given him regarding having his cousin and the other vetteresies in the guild, Trey’d disregarded that the moment he’d had a heart to heart conversation with Yastiel. Yastiel, and to a lesser degree – Lueth, were solid choices. As long as Agnude was in it for the long haul anyways. Trey had slight concerns about their stance regarding Maltetious, but Maltetious had personally assured him that she would try to work on mending ties as long as Trey could promise her to follow through with the promises Eleknar had made her…

To which she was still not specific about. But Trey had told her as long as it was within reason and within his power, he’d do it.

The first step of the plan was simple. Rivia could portal everyone into the cellars of the Okt compound when Trey recalled her back to the nether realm from her place in the forests and then summon her back to his side in Zekul, but she’d need to have her DP sustained as they went through. Every soul that entered and exited her portals would cost her divinity points, or DP, and normally it would be impossible to perform such a feat by herself…

Thankfully though, she had a perk she’d gotten upon accepting Alkir’s path to sainthood quest that would rather help with this:

Unholy Ascendance (Trait, +1000 Faith stat points)

She had a fucking ridiculous amount of DP due to her Faith stat. She also had a new ritual, one of 3 apparent abilities – including the portal ability, that allowed her to sacrifice people in order to regain divinity points. And thanks to Trey’s cousin Carol, they had an entire pen full of prisoners of war that they could sacrifice to Alkir just for that. Rivia would set up the diagrams, leave everything in place for Carol’s group to use, and would gain the DP points from the sacrifices even though she wasn’t there to do it herself as she portal people in.

Now it was only up to Trey to get down to the massive underground cellar and secure it for enough time to get all of his guildmates through and over a hundred vetteresie warriors following Carol and Silvara around. He’d only been down there once, but was more than certain it could fit a few hundred people there even aside from all the supplies and random crap the vampires of the Okt coven stored there. Then, after everyone was in position, he would march his own forces up to the coven’s meeting that Kagdor had told him about – which should be happening within the next few hours – and send Carol’s forces to secure the rest of the compound. Personally he didn’t know how good these ‘elite’ vetteresie warriors really were, so he erred on the side of caution and would send Piggy, Ikt, Napoleon, and Ashe with them to specifically secure the front entrance. Ikt in particular was a key participant in this act, as the vampire guards on the outside of the compound would need to be secured for Ashe to subjugate before they were stationed back at their posts. No one could see what was happening when they were snatched, but the shadow fiend assured him that this would be an easy task.

“I am level 307, my liege…” Ikt had stated with a grandeur bow when questioned on whether or not he could do it. “Have faith in me, sire, and I will bring to you the men that you desire without fail and without any attention being drawn. I swear this to you upon pain of death, and upon my name and title as a servant of Alkir herself.”

That’d been all Trey wanted to hear, and as Yastiel wished him good luck before departing to again start marching her armies northwards towards Kag’Dul – Trey and the four women with him exited the room and made their way down to the cellars.

It was time to act.

Lanterns shed yellow light along the walls as they made their way through halls of tapestries and stuffed animals slain in battles and brought back as trophies. Numerous rooms of redwood doors were passed by almost silently as the five of them headed for the spiral staircase leading down to the lower levels.

Now that the three vampiric women Trey owned had evolved into pureblooded vampires, something that – from what they told him – were almost a thing of myth, he did not want to run into anybody. And anybody that they did run into, as long as the group was small enough, would be immediately killed and dragged along with them into the lower levels. Ezdeath could have made the trek undetected by herself, but opted to stay with them as the other three girls had little to no experience in fighting or assassination yet even despite their heavily upgraded bodies that were built for war. She had also decided to take off her armor though, as though she could usually move around in it without much noise – she didn’t want to chance it and make a mistake while alerting people to their passage.

Trey’s horned picked up vibrations from time to time, a skill he rarely used as he almost never needed to sneak around, but the stakes were high and he couldn’t risk being stopped or caught here now.

“Your skill in Sneak has raised by 1 level.”

That god damn skill was so low that it took almost no effort on his part to level it up, but nevertheless he couldn’t help but smile.

They exited on the first floor and then took a round-about hallway, turning left and coming to an abrupt run in with a vampiric man Trey knew by the name of Gorb.

Gorb’s eyes went wide in startled surprise upon seeing him and the four unusual women, but half a second later his head was decapitated by a swift strike on Ezdeath’s part – her claws unfurling and flashing ahead with inhuman speed before catching the corpse and handing it to Osi, while placing the head in Nothel’s care. Blood being spilt was nothing unusual here in the household and the red carpets were red for a reason, so as long as they didn’t leave a familiar body about them it wouldn’t cause any attention.

“Good job Ezdeath.”

The succubus beamed, but kept her attention focused on the path ahead of them as they turned yet another corner and opened another door leading down to the cellar.

This door was far larger than the others, though it didn’t get much use. Most of the food was made fresh in the kitchen, with only the cooks wandering down here for various wines and spices or the occasional set of cleaning supplies whenever need was raised. Pushing it open and letting the others through, Ezdeath shut it behind them as Trey led the way down the stone steps and into the dark recesses of the basement.

There were no lights here, but none of them had trouble seeing as they passed through the massive room buried beneath the manor. Large pillars of stone held up the compound from below, and the height of the place was at least twenty feet tall with the width and length the size of a small school. Boxes and barrels, crates and wracks of corked bottles were stacked and lined up in rows – and it really hit home then just how rich the Okt coven really was to have all of these supplies on hand and just sitting around.

Trey turned back to Ezdeath, then placed a firm hand on her shoulder. “Keep an eye on the door.”

He gave her a brief kiss that left her beaming and turned around to concentrate, sending her skipping away to the stairway they’d just come from. Meanwhile the other three women watched n silence as he raised a hand, and began to summon the magic to him.

Summoner’s Calling: Minion’s Call (Dark) - Level N/A

· Summons a specific minion you already own, or dismisses them to your personal nether realm. Dismissing a demon to their nether realm will heal it over time and allow it to revitalize. However, keep in mind it takes 30 seconds to channel this ability. You may only summon or dismiss 1 minion at a time.

Thirty seconds later and a red pentagram began to etch itself into the stone floor below in a wide space within the center of the cellar that lacked any filling. Power streamed from his outstretched hand, and another thirty seconds past before the form of Rivia bloomed into existence.

The priestess took in a deep breath of air, smiled, and grinned mischeviously Trey’s way. “Hello master. It is good to see you again. I must ask though… did you truly acquire the 7th writ for me? Or are you just trying to rile me up for when you get my panties off again?”

Nothel frowned, but Trey chuckled and rolled his eyes.

“Get to it and start summoning the others. We’ll talk about your panties later.”

Rivia smirked, gave a sidelong look at the new vampires Trey’d acquired, and winked. Then she began drawing out a large, perfectly made circle with blue chalk on the ground. A flick of her wrists and runes carved themselves through magical means along the stone around them, and she flung the chalk down at her feet while lifting her hands up into the air and humming a rhythmic tune.

Trey recognized the tune as a chant in itself, lacking words, and had heard from Eleknar that the more sophisticated rituals actually required such things alongside an internal and proper image instead of words to create. Folding his arms and appreciating the beauty of his second-ever minion, he watched the priestess continue to hum and then dance around the circle’s edge as her sandaled feet skipped to the tune. The chalk she’d thrown into a powdery cloud began to follow her, and with each humming beat it radiated – expanding itself out and creating new runes – one after the other – until a spherical red ball of energy began to accumulate in the center of the circle. As it grew, electrical currents began to spark around the edge and through Rivia’s body as she waved her staff around while continuing the chant. The circle grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until it was easily the size of a pickup truck and radiated heat to illuminate the cellar around them.

She paused in her dance, slapped her hands together, and then Rivia spoke the single word: “Portal.”

The red light vanished in an instant, and in its place a void of black with sparking purple light erupted from its center.

And one after another, Trey’s other minions began to appear. First was Sithis – his wings flexing outwards as the large devil grinned down at him, then Napoleon riding in on Piggy’s saddle, then Atharost as his flames pulsed along his body with eager anticipation.

“Tonight, we will feast on the flesh of the dead to celebrate our reunion.” Sithis stated adamantly, patting Trey on the head like one would do a puppy dog. “Master, it has been too long to be without you. I am glad we are back together again.”

Atharost chuckled, nodding in agreement as he floated overhead. “Indeed. We must celebrate the reunion tonight after we take this compound for ourselves! I am excited, and am anxious to do battle alongside you!”

Other figures started appearing. Telipe and Izumi, then Ashe and three minotaurs, and then Jason – who held a bow and warily looked around with a frown.

“Damn it… I always end up in these shitty situations…” Jason could be heard muttering as he coughed from the dust in the room. “Fucking cultists, pirates, bandits, slavers, and now vampires. God damn it my life fucking sucks.”

Trey couldn’t help but laugh at that one, but Jason found it anything but funny.

Soon Carol had also appeared, alongside Silvara and a number of Vetteresies.

Carol’s face, usually grim, now held a smile as her sword dripped with fresh blood. “I am excited about this venture together, cousin. Now that we have understood one another, perhaps we can put our differences aside and work to better ourselves simultaneously.”

More green-tinted warriors entered after that, and then Taen along with his small horde of undead minions. Butcher, the flesh golem, had grown even larger and had a second head – along with large bone spikes erupting from nearly everywhere on his fleshy, muscular body. Then came the ghoul Bann in heavy plate mail, and the phantom Coriana as she flashed in and out of the surrounding pillars while playfully zipping around the startled vettersie warriors while giggling.

“Calm your phantom!” Silvara hissed in annoyance as Taen smiled widely. She pointed a perfectly manecured finger in Taen’s direction accusingly, and despite her outwardly beautiful appearance – the elf’s words were filled with ugliness and contempt. “She’s been an annoying pest ever since we met! Put her away, you filthy necromancer!”

Trey ignored them, instead concentrating on Rivia’s standing form while she closed her eyes – obviously under some kind of burden with every passing member that came through the portal. Coming up around her and putting his arms around her waist, he tucked his head onto the crevice between her right shoulder and her ear… and whispered. “You’re doing well. How long until we can summon Maltetious, Ikt, and the rest of her party after you’re done with this first portal?”

“Not long.” Rivia replied with furrowed brows, holding her hands out in front of her. “The vetteresies are continuing to slaughter the prisoners as we speak and their sparks of divinity are flowing into me. Fear not, your plan will go as expected.”

With a satisfactory nod, he gave her breasts a quick squeeze and licked her ear. “You’re going to get it later tonight. It’s been a while.”

Rivia flushed and grinned, but then returned back to her state of concentration. “You’re as horny as ever, master.”

“Yup. Some things never change. Also, as soon as house Okt has been taken… we need to discuss your new abilities. It’s been a while. Make sure you assign your stat points before we go into the fight, I’ve already told the others – but your stat points are your own priority now. I trust you all to do what’s best.”

She nodded. “I will.”

He let her go and gave her another slap on the ass before turning around. Now was as good a time as any to assign his own stat points, and he eagerly pulled up his status page. By god, when he was done assigning the 250 stat points to strength, 50 skill points to shadowstep / chaos ball / chains of chaos, had taken into account the additional points Alkir had given him, and the additional Willpower stats he’d gotten from assigning the initial 250 into Strength… he was a fucking monster. But what made him even more of a god damned beast of a man, or demonic overlord more like, was Dadik’s Heart and it’s boosts of 3000 HP, 2000 MP, 2000 SP and reducing his minion requirement to 5 willpower per slot.

Jesus almighty, had he become a creature to be reconned with. This upcoming battle for the Okt compound… it wasn’t going to be a battle at all.

It was going to be a slaughter.

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Name: Trey Bon

HP 3922/3922

MP 2214/2214

SP 2270/2270

DP 1/1

Rage 0/100

Race: Human

Patron Deity: Alkir, Mistress of Darkness

Guild: The Cult of Elekir

Class: Infernal Summoner, Horror Crusader

Level 102

Status Alerts:

Remaining Skill Points: 0
Remaining Stat Points: 0
Current Permanence cycle: OFF
Current Bound Point: Lawless Lands, Outer Rim Runestone

Buffs:

+300% damage or effectiveness to all infernal abilities (Vatosis Inferna)
+3% resistance to all damage (Resilience)
+10% resistance to all damage (Dreadlord Vorshok’s Bane)
Autoregeneration (Dreadlord Vorshok’s Bane)
+15% damage to offensive spells (Aspect of the Devil: Death’s Gaze)
Night Vision (Aspect of the Devil: Death’s Gaze)
+100% to sight, hearing, smell, reflexes and awareness (Predator)
+33% to awareness (Aspect of the Devil: Horns)
+30% total damage output (Talsh’Noc’Un, Thirsting Level: 2)
+20% damage increase for Strength related weapons (Horror Crusader)
+8% defense to all armor worn (Horror Crusader)
When enraged, +1% temporary damage increase for every point in the Rage bar (Horror Crusader)
+1 Willpower stat gifted for every 2 Strength, Vitality, or Endurance stats placed (Horror Crusader)
+17% chance to dominate demons and fallen (Unholy Script of Domination)
+99% resistance to soul damage (Rebirth of the Void)
Injures people outside your immediate party that attempt to identify you, and notifies you of their attempt (Horror Crusader: Accursed)
All minion slots only require 5 Willpower (Dadik’s Heart)

Debuffs:

+8% damage taken from all Celestial and Holy abilities (Aversion to Divine)
+5% Insanity and aggression (Talsh’Noc’Un, Thirsting Level: 2)
When enraged, +1% temporary insanity increase for every point in the Rage bar (Horror Crusader)

Stat Amplifications:

651 Strength

411 Vitality

85 Endurance

9 Dexterity

74 Speed

167 Intelligence

57 Wisdom

0 Faith

0 Luck

607.5 Willpower

7% Insanity

Magics (8 of 20 spells learned)

Create Lesser Undead (Necromancy) - Level 8

· Zombie (Not Sentient): raise a corpse as an undead zombie with 80% of original creature’s stats.

Chaos Ball^^^^^ (Chaos) - Level 50

· Summon a ball of chaos to fling at your enemies

· Upgrade 1> Increase size of chaos ball and explosion radius by 80%

· Upgrade 2> Increase damage of chaos ball by 6%

· Upgrade 3> Chance to pierce through magical defenses is doubled

· Upgrade 4> Can summon 2 Chaos Balls simultaneously for the price of 1

· Upgrade 5> Can imbue ‘SNIPE’, allowing Chaos Ball to travel far faster & further

Chains of Chaos^^^^ (Chaos) - Level 40

· Summon chaos chains to bind or impale your enemies

· Upgrade 1> Spikes are added to ends of chains for better puncturing

· Upgrade 2> Chains can now use homing on their targets

· Upgrade 3> Electrified aspect is now tripled and has improved paralyze chance

· Upgrade 4> Significantly increased sturdiness to chains

Shadowstep^^^^^ (Dark) - Level 50

· Teleport a short distance instantly

· Upgrade 1> Cooldown reduced by 50%

· Upgrade 2> In conjunction with Shadowform, mana cost is reduced to nothing

· Upgarde 3> Allows 3x previous distance for teleport range

· Upgrade 4> Cooldown is decreased significantly

· Upgrade 5> Cooldown is decreased even further

Roar of the Banshee (Dark) - Level 4

· Silences enemies for a short time, inhibiting them from casting spells or miracles

Shadow Blades^ (Dark) - Level 16

· Unleash sharpened blades of shadow at your enemy.

· Upgrade 1> Range increased by 100 yards

· NOTICE: Your shadowform decreases mana cost for this ability by 80%

Summoner’s Calling: Least Summoning Circle (Dark) - Level N/A

· The most basic of summoning circles with a low intensity magic signature that usually (but not always) attracts the weaker denizens of the infernal realms. This broad spectrum spell enables you to communicate with the infernal realms of Hell, Oblivion, and the Void, but offers no protection whatsoever from the creatures you summon. You are able to increase the chance for a random target to appear by using double the mana and circling the center pentagram.

Summoner’s Calling: Minion’s Call (Dark) - Level N/A

Miracles (0 of 1 miracles learned)

None

Physical Combat (1 of 5 sacred arts learned)

Blades^ - Level 29

· Upgrade 1> Dexterity bonus of +3% when wielding blades

· Upgrade 2> Damage with blades is increased by 4%

Aspect of the Devil: Mask (Chaos) - Level 10

· Grants bite attacks and manaless ability to breathe short range hellfire

· Upgrade 1> Damage increased by 6%

Aspect of the Devil: Claws - Level 8

Aspect of the Devil: Tail - Level 9

Hand to Hand Combat - Level 9

Assassination - level 7

Light Armor - Level 9

Horror Crusader: Terror Stricken (Sacred Art) - Level 4

*Empower your next weapon strike with terror imbued dark magic. Upon contact

the target will lose all buffs, become terror stricken, and take an additional 250%

of base physical damage from dark magic. Terror may be resisted by a

high willpower. Strike gains +200 Speed.

Miscellaneous

Identification - Level 24

Sneak - Level 9

Traits:

Vatosis Inferna - You are the Infernal Prince. The chosen one, born by creation itself and out of the influence of the gods to one day rule over creation. Will you embrace your destiny and find success? Or will you falter, fail, and die at the hands of your enemies? The future is not yet determined.

+300% damage or effectiveness to all infernal abilities. Unlocks all infernal attributes, including Necromancy, Chaos, Dark, Blood, Abyss, Curse, Void and Apocalypse.
1st Ascension: Lullaby of the Behemoth - This is a trait ability and cannot be leveled up. This trait is entirely governed by your willpower, both innate willpower and stat point additions. Use this trait to call upon the music of creation to shape reality unto your will. How this trait manifests is highly dependent upon the participant. Weeks-long cooldown, may only be used for a few minutes at a time.
2nd Ascension: ???
3rd Ascension: ???
4th Ascension: ???
5th Ascension: ???
6th Ascension: ???
7th Ascension: ???
8th Ascension: ???
9th Ascension: ???

Earthborn - You are earthborn and experience ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ permanence cycles. You also gain a 20% increase to any type of XP acquired when compared to your fellow NPCs, and your mana regeneration rate is increased by 30%.

Languages Learned - Ancient Demon, Human

Void Essence - You have been chosen as a suitable host. You are now able to access black magics, skill trees, abilities, and spells unavailable to most other black magic users.

Resilience - +100 HP, +3% resistance to all damage. Mental fortitude increased.

Dreadlord Voshok’s Bane (Heroic) - +10% resistance to all damage. Autoregenerate 1% HP per minute. Autoregenerate lost body parts over time.

Predator - +100% to sight, hearing, smell, reflexes and awareness. Also allows participant to use the ability Consume.

*Consume - Beings that you have killed yourself may be consumed. Doing so gives you a chance to acquire Strength stat points and is largely dependent on the foe’s danger rating. Consume will also rapidly restore HP, MP, and SP.

Aversion to Divine - Participant is associated with the infernal arts. +8% damage taken by all Celestial and Holy abilities.

Horror Crusader - Participant now has the Infernal Summoner subclass of Horror crusader, a berserker / caster mixture that endows a baseline of 2% insanity.

Physical Attributes:

Unholy Script of Domination - Unholy Scripts are written into your flesh. Unholy Script of Domination may be used to dominate the minds of lesser beings - having a high cooldown upon doing so. Stretch forth your tainted hand to touch them, bending them to your will to force mortal races into thrall minion contracts without need of ritual. May be resisted by a high willpower, baseline prior to stat amplifications or otherwise. Also receive a +17% bonus for dominating demons and fallen. Very high cooldown to create charges for thralls. Can store up to 3 charges at a time.

Current Thrall Domination Charges: 3

Shadowform - Allows participant’s body to express shadow properties. Allows Participant to focus and bind acquired items into Shadowform, absorbing them into the participant’s body fitting a maximum weight of 500kg. May summon bound items anywhere within a 5 yard radius of participant. May unbind items when needed. If bound item is outside of a 1000 yard radius from participant, bound item automatically returns to Shadowform.

Stored Items:

15,672 gold coins, 27,339 silver coins, 59,201 bronze coins
Unique thrall evolution stone: Voidling Broodmother (Currently Immature)
Soulstone - Hellsteed (x11)
Weaver Eggs (x37)

Aspect of the Devil: Death’s Gaze - Permanent no cost upon use Night Vision enchantments afflict your eyes, which are tinged a glowing red. This also empowers all of your damaging magics by 15% damage.

Aspect of the Devil: Claws - Summon and discard demon claws at will. Separate from hand to hand combat. Can cause bleeding, a damage over time effect.

Aspect of the Devil: Mask - Summon and discard demon Jaws at will. Allows participant to use predator’s Consume ability much more rapidly and participant is now able to use Consume during battle. Allows participant to breath Hellfire (Chaos), a medium range area of effect spell that costs no mana. Can cause burns.

Aspect of the Devil: Tail - Allows piercing and slashing attacks. Damage equivalent to Aspect of the Devil: Claws. May extend up to 25 additional feet. (Non-retractable prior to original 5 foot length)

Aspect of the Devil: Horns - These horns pick up vibrations in the air and in the ground to sense incoming attacks, +33% to awareness. (Non-retractable)

Obscuring Mask - Change your facial features and disguise your status page at will. Hide your vampiric or demonic features at will. Truth may be revealed by intense scrutiny of a high level identification skill.

Vampiric Speed - Innate speed increased with x2 modifier, does not apply to stats

Vampiric Strength - Innate strength increased with x2 modifier, does not apply to stats

Vampiric Reflexes - Innate dexterity increased with x2 modifier, does not apply to stats

Vampiric Fangs - You now thirst for blood and gain +3% stat bonuses every time you feed for 1 hour. Your vampiric fangs are also able to extend and retract, allowing you to turn mortals into vampiric beings by imbuing them with vampire toxins.

Eyes of the Bat - Enables night vision and a blue glowing tint when activated.

Legs of the Spider King – Legs of the Spider King are able to attach and move up any surface, and are able to produce strands of mana-imbued silk that may be dismissed at a whim but are very hard to break otherwise. The more mana you imbue, the stronger the silk. Legs of the Spider King also have high piercing capabilities with thrusting attacks. Legs of the Spider King also contain secondary glands that create inert egg sacks.

- Insert inert egg sacks into female host wombs. Egg sacks will merge with female’s naturally produced eggs, and you can then successfully mate to combine with host DNA, making the host a temporary vessel to hatch spiderlings. Egg sacks often produce different offspring, but bloodlines you like can be saved and reproduced as specific egg sacks to insert over time. All spiderling children will consider you their father, the host their mother, and will have the strong inclination to help you but are not under absolute control.”

- Number of Currently Seeded Women for Spiderling Reproduction: 4

Magical Attributes:

Chaos

Dark

Necromancy

Blood

Abyss

Curse

Void

Apocalypse

Skill Trees Unlocked: