Chapter 2: Dungeon Crawling and First Boss Fight
It was Roughly around six in the morning when a girl with semi-long blonde hair and blue eyes woke up suddenly and looked around her room in surprise.
She sighs before getting up and looking into a mirror in her room.
"Hmm... shorter hair and younger... but everything is mostly the same... I'd say I'm around, 14 in this body?" she sighs, she didn't have an INT or WIS stat to go up to prove her right...
She glances over at the bedside table and saw a phone on charge, she goes over to check it.
"Six in the morning, January 14, 2014? that's... 15 days before school starts... at least if we go with my worlds standard of where I lived..." she sighs before putting the phone back down and deciding to have a nice 15 minute shower, she got changed into a pair of black shorts with a white T-Shirt that said 'You call me a bitch like it's a bad thing'.
She found her new favourite shirt...
Oh yeah, she should probably check that games are out and what songs are out, so she knew what people would and wouldn't get.
One hour and ten minutes of binging the internet later, it was 7:30 AM, just then she got a notifications.
Daily Dungeons have spawned, Would you like a list?
Y/N
Shrugging she taps the 'Y' button.
Goblin Cave: LV5 Recommended
Location: D.J. Sherrington Park
Ogre Field: LV20 Recommended
Location: Inala Shopping center
Zombie Realm: LV10 Recommended
Location: Front Yard (Only appears from 7 PM to 4 AM)
She looks at the list, she only really had one choice cause the Ogre Field would kill her, Zombie wouldn't be available for the next 12-ish hours, so some time today she'd go to the Goblin cave to try and get close to level 10 to go to the Zombie Realm.
'Well, at least I know where I am, since these things have to be close by I'm in Inala, maybe a younger version? and I wonder what's different about this world from my own?' she sighs before looking through her clothes, seeing if there was anything she could wear to hide her identity before going to the portal.
Apparently she was into Cosplay in this world, so finding stuff to hide her identity was very easy, a medical mask, black hoodie, fingerless gloves, black jeans and combat boots.
"Hmm... this should do..." she wrote a note saying she was leaving for abit and probably will be back by lunch time, she had a quick snack for breakfast before heading to the park.
'Huh, same place as I lived as well, neat, at least I know my way around.' once she arrives she saw a portal and no one was around, so taking the opportunity she walked into it while pulling down the medical mask with a grin on her face.
She pulls out Cross-Calibur and noticed that a new tab was added to the weapon.
[Cross-Calibur - Rank: A+/A++]
Cross-Calibur: Twin Black Dragon Sword of Promised Victory, The Noble Phantasm of Mysterious Heroine X Alter, it takes the form of The Normal Excalibur but with a faint red glow around it's blade.
N.P Incantation
« I have been waiting for this moment."
"Altereactor, critical limits exceeded. Through my darkness's brilliance, return to elementary particles!"
"...Cross-Calibur! »
N.P Cost: 300 MP
Damage: 500~1,000
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1~99
"uh... I don't have the Altereactor... would I be able to use the Noble Phantasm? Well... The Altereactor simply transforms elements into Mana, so i guess it's okay...?" she sighs before looking around, she was in a cave system of sorts, just then a notification popped up.
You've entered your first dungeon! let me explain the rules real quick.
1. Leaving the Dungeon shall destroy it's portal for the day, meaning you will be unable to return to the same dungeon within the same day.
2. Defeating the Boss allows you to enter the Treasury, where you can find all kinds of items, namely money, armour and weapons, but sometimes special items will spawn.
3. Every Dungeon has at least one hidden room (Unless it's a Realm or Field) with a Rare Item within it, see if you can find it~
4. and finally, any damage done to your body and clothes are automatically repaired on exit, however weapons will not repair if they have Durability damage.
Have fun~!
(Note: Cross-Calibur doesn't have Durability, so go nuts with it.)
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"Oh boy, this'll be fun..." she walks around for abit and comes face to face with a group of five Goblins.
Goblin LV5
Cave Dweller
She readies her blade, if their HP worked like hers, they had a minimum of 500 HP, with a possible maximum of 1750, although she doubt they put all their points into Endurance, they seem to be more of a Agility type monsters because of their size...
She dashes forward with surprising speed and slice one across the chest, it staggers back in pain before getting sliced by her once more.
It turns into a burst of blue particles, so it had at least 1,000 HP, though she placed her bet on around 750.
She swings at another one and it turned to blue particles in one slice, she turns to block a touch that was aimed at her, she didn't have time to use her sword so she used her hand.
You have Gained the Ability to Mimic The Energy of Fire.
She stared at it for a moment before grinning, so she Activated her skill, Energy Creation and used 10 Units of MP per second, her sword lit ablaze from the sudden energy and she swings with all her might, creating a huge wave of fire that burnt all the remaining Goblins in the area.
You Killed 5 Goblins, giving you 200 EXP (x4) [800 EXP]
You have gained $10.
[Energy Perception] has levelled up.
[Energy Creation] has levelled up x2.
She looked at the two skills before checking them for herself.
[Energy Perception - LV2 73.00% - Passive]
A Skill that allows you to mimic types of energies you see or come into contact with
Types of Energies Mimicked: Fire (0.5)
- Chance to Mimic Energy on contact: 51%
- Chance to Mimic Energy on sight: 5%
[Energy Creation - LV3 26.00% - Active]
Allows you to produce Mimicked types of energies from your body
- can produce 1-20 units of types of energy
- cannot select where energy comes from
Cost: [Varies] MP cost
The two skills could definitely be used to do amazing things at the later levels... and they were like Shirou's skills except for different types of energy... like Magic...
'Wait, no, this isn't Magic, Magic is defined by things like the Kaleidoscope, Heaven's Feel and The Blue, this is Magecraft.' She sighs before carrying on before stopping, she didnt even check her status before heading in here.
Name: Jeanne Skylark
Level: 6 (3,800/6,000 EXP to next level)
Title: [Ally of The Void] - Permanent, [Wielder of Cross-Calibur] - Permanent
Race: Human (French/Australian)
HP: 1,100/1,100
HPR: 11 HP/m
MP: 740/740
MPR: 150 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (E Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 15
END: 10
AGI: 20
MANA: 15
LUK: 5
N.P: 5
Points: 0
Money: $1,260
Jeanne? Like Jeanne D'Arc? one of the Ruler servants? huh, neat, wonder if that gives me an ability.
...
...
Nope, got nothing, oh well, maybe it'll show itself if it activates?
She stops for a moment and glances at Cross-Calibur in her hand, She uses Structural Analysis on it and gets some pop ups.
[Structural Analysis] Levelled up x52
[Unlimited Blade Works] Levelled up x15
You've added [Cross-Calibur] to your Unlimited Blade Works
You've gained [Alter Lightning], [Alter Choke]
You've gained the Trait [Altereactor]
[Altereactor] Trait MAXED due to [Unlimited Blade Works] and [Unlimited Void World]
[Altereactor] Advanced into [Infinite Altereactor]
[Infinite Altereactor] - Trait - Passive
Keeps the user in top shape by burning calories into Mana, due to the nature of it becoming Infinite, an Infinite amount of power can be stored within it.
Stored Mana: 920 MP
Max Output from Altereactor: 200 MP per Minute (Level: 1/100)
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EX-FUCKING-CUSE ME?!
"How did I get such an over powered Trait from simply Tracing Cross-Calibur?!" she sighs before deciding to just continue with the dungeon while training a majority of her skills.
She just finished clearing out the last room minus the boss room, so she decided to check what she got from her rampage through this place.
You've killed 45 Goblins, giving 1,800 EXP (x4) [7,200 EXP]
You've leveled up!
You got $90
[Alter Lightning] Levelled up x70
[Alter Choke] Levelled up x20
[Structural Analysis] Levelled up x30
[Projection (Tracing)] Levelled up x80 (dear god Tracing Cross-Calibur was a good idea)
[Reinforcement] Levelled up x30
[Energy Creation] Levelled up x12
[Fire Resistance] Gained and Levelled up x10
[Sword Proficiency] Gained and Levelled up x100
[Sword Proficiency] Advanced to [Sword Mastery]
[Sword Mastery] Levelled up x50
[Infinite Altereactor] Trait Levelled up to 20
Magic Circuits Ranked up to D
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Who said The Gamer was over powered? cause she totally agreed...
"Alright... cleared the place out... now I need to find that hidden room..." Guess what she wasted an hour trying to find?
"CROSS-CALIBUR!" she used it to simply destroy something and looked at the rubble to only get a Notification.
Goblin Cave Hidden Room found.
...
"I'm burning this place to the ground before I leave..." living up the the Name of Jeanne if we are talking about her Alter self.
She walks into the room to see what is there.
there was a chest in the middle of the room, so she decides to kick it slightly and it opens on its own, she jumps back while on guard incase it was a Mimic chest.
after nothing happened a glow emitted from the chest and a item slowly rises out of it and floats there.
She walks up to the items and see it was in fact two items, a pair of gloves to be exact.
There design was simple one was black with a white symbol on the back, and the other was white with a black symbol on the back, the symbols were the same, a skull.
[Oathkeeper and Oathbreaker - Rank: A/A+]
A pair of gloves that powers the wearers hand to hand combat.
- +10 Levels to Hand to hand combat when wore
- +50% Speed with Hand to Hand combat
Damage: 250~500
She decides to equip them instead of the fingerless gloves she had on her already.
Due to equipping a Skill enhancing Item, you've gained [Hand to Hand Combat]
[Hand to Hand Combat - LV1(11) 0.00% - Passive/Active]
The Art of The Fist, an Elegant yet deadly art to have a means to an end.
- +1%(+11%) to Hand to Hand Combat Speed
- +2%(+22%) To Hand to Hand Combat Damage
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"Should I fight the boss without Cross-Calibur...?" she thinks on it for a moment before putting Cross-Calibur into her Equip page, "Eh, i'll just get it out if it gets too hard, I want to train this skill as well." she makes the boring journey back to the Boss room and steels herself before going inside.
The room was dark, but she could make out a throne at the end of the room, most likely where the Boss is.
Suddenly the touches along the cave light up, slightly blinding her and she looks to see around ten goblins and a large... Hobgoblin she believed they're called.
Goblin Knight LV7
Sworn to the King
Goblin King Turkeg LV10
He who is King
...
She was not prepared for today...
"I See you have made it to my lair Human." AND IT SPEAKS!
"U-uh... yeah, I have..." she says, causing the Hobgoblin to look confuse, "Hmm... you're different... most of your kind are either confident or stone cold... why are you nervous human child?" She looks to the side.
"Well, I didn't think any of you had... don't take this the wrong way, had intelligence, I'm just abit shocked..." the Hobgoblin nods to her, "Ah, I see, you are a new one of your kind, of the Gamers?" Jeanne looks at him in shock, "How do-" "I have seen some of your kind before, some fairly weak ones, but I've seen them, they treat life as if it's a toy they can mess with, it disgust me... I can tell you are not like them..."
Jeanne looks pretty shell shock, which soon calmed down to a slightly confused expression, "So... of the those Goblins I killed...?"
"No, those are brain dead, as are my minions here, from my understand, only these 'Boss' Monsters have intelligences."
That would make sense, they are the strongest in the dungeon, probably have it just to commend their men and use strategy, making fighting bosses more difficult.
"How about this? you fight and kill my minions, and I'll honour you with a duel, since you show regret for taking possible sentient life of my kind, as a King I should somewhat reward you with an easier time then those before you." She nods to him and readies her fist.
The first two come at her from two sides, so she runs to the left and uppercuts one and jumps forward to avoid a slash from behind, she looks to see one of the Knights about to shield bash her, so she raised her arms to block it, she punches it back and knocks the shield Goblin over, she jumped slightly and rammed her fist right into the helmet, crushing it and killing it instantly.
She jumps away to get some distance, "This... May be harder then I thought..." two try to flank her while the one she uppercutted jumps at her from in front, She raises her hand and calls out "Alter Choke!" They float into the air, about three feet off the ground and start choking to death, Jeanne clenches her hand into a fist and three resounding snaps are heard.
"Huh... so that's what it feels like to Forc- Whoa!" she jumps back to avoid a mallet she raises her fist to the sky and brings it down, igniting it with fire to deal extra damage, the Goblin soon burned to death.
"Alright, five down, five to go..." She gets into a stance and sees one rush her with an axe, she side steps it and kicks the axe away and delivers three strikes to the chest, killing it.
She steps back and raises her hand to grab the neck of a Goblin Knight and crush it before letting go, letting it suffocate to death, she takes in a breath before her body lights up slightly with a blue vein network, enabling Reinforcement on herself and her gloves.
She pulls back her fist and slams it full force into one in front of her, and push it towards another before slamming them into the ground, killing both, she looked at the last one there, had a normal sword, she raises her hand and manages to catch the blade, yank it out of it's hand, and stab it with it,
...
"Okay... Not as bad as I thought." she looks at the blade and uses Structural Analysis on it, only E-Rank, but still better then no sword, and she'd rather not fight with Cross-Calibur because she needed to prove herself against the boss, ignore all the training in her skills she had done.
She glances up at the King Hobgoblin and readies her blade.
"Heheh, I see you aren't a push over, that last punch was strong indeed, but if you're such a good hand to hand combatant, why face me with a sword?" She smirks slightly, "Because I only just picked up hand to hand combat, I'm more skilled with swords." he looks surprised before grinning, and jumping off his throne to the middle of the arena, drawing a battle axe and a shield.
"Well then, if that's the case, Come and face me with all you got human child!" Jeanne narrows her eyes slightly before dashing forward, she swings at him and he blocks it, she manages to push him back thanks to Reinforcement.
She strikes at him a few more times before having to jump back as a cut formed on her shirt, 'Fast!' She focuses Reinforcement to her eyes to track his movement better and blocks an attack just barely.
She jumps back and aims her hand at her, "Alter Lightning!" a massive amount of lightning shoots out from her hand and impacts around and on him, dealing some decent damage.
"Wow, I didn't know you could use elements like that, I'm Impressed Human Child!" he calls out while getting up steadily, he was quite damaged but had a smile, he seemed to be enjoying himself.
"Trace, On." A second sword that looked identical to the one in her other hand appeared in a blue mist of energy, she dashes forward and continuously strikes at him, after six strikes and reinforces the final one the shield shatters as does her traced weapon, she deflects an axe swing and try to impale him.
The two continue to fight, sometimes they'd deal damage to each other, by the end the two were looking at each other, a few meters apart, panting heavily and holding themselves up with their weapons, they were both smiling.
"So... How much... till you cave in... Human Child...?" He ask her, making her chuckle weakly, "Not... Until... you do... first..."
They stood up fully and held their weapons to their side, both of their blades started to glow and the Hobgoblin Kings Info changed.
Turkeg, Last Will Of A King LV20
He places his life into this strike.
That... was bad...
'Reinforcement, Energy Creation: Fire, Alter Lightning!' her Blade glows a bright blue while Flame and Lightning danced along it, They run at each other.
They meet midway and clash blades before dashing past each other, a moment later the head of the Hobgoblin's axe is cut cleaning from its neck and falls to the floor, as the the Hobgoblin with a massive cut from his neck to his lower armpit.
She stabs the ground to hold herself up before Groaning and checking her Health, 100/1,200, "Okay... let's never do this again..."
Continuous fighting has raised your STR: +5, AGI: +2, END: +3
You've Defeated Turkeg, Last Will Of A King, and 10 Goblin Knights, Gaining 6,000 EXP (x4) [24,000 EXP]
You've levelled up! x3
You've Gained $550
[Hand to Hand combat] levelled up x4
[Sword Mastery] Levelled up x25
[Physical Endurance] Levelled up x7
[Fire Resistance] Levelled up x5
She breathes out a sigh of relief, at least it was over...
"Now..." she walks over to the weapon of the fallen King, and picks it up, "...unrepairable..." she walks over to where he fell and turned to blue practicals, she jammed the Axe head into the ground and stabbed the handle in behind it, "It's not much, but I hope you enjoy being given a grave, even if you have died hundreds of times by now..."
She closed her eyes for a moment before carrying on to the room after, the Treasury.
She checks the time, it was currently 10:45 AM... dear god she has been fighting in this dungeon for about three hours...
"Just go to the treasury, get the shit, burn this place to the ground - what ever ground is outside of here - and then fuck right off to my bed so I can sleep this off like a bad hang over..."
She didn't find much, some swords she traced into her Unlimited Blade works that simply existed to fill in her almost empty Reality Marble, some leather armour she wouldn't bother with, as it barely gave any defence, and about... 500 Gold, converted into Australian dollars is around $2,300.
The amount of Pocky she could buy...
She exits the dungeon and walks home, having fully healed from that whole mess.
She gets back at around 11:30, ate lunch and passed right the fuck out onto her bed and fell into bliss sleep.
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Next Time on Fate of a Gamer
"Is that what i think it is...?"
"You have less then a thousand health left, don't you...?"
"Well, stress test time!"
Stats
Name: Jeanne Skylark
Level: 10 (5,000/10,000 EXP to next level)
Title: [Ally of The Void] - Permanent, [Wielder of Cross-Calibur] - Permanent
Race: Human (French/Australian)
HP: 1750/1,750
HPR: 227.5 HP/m
MP: 1,665/1,665
MPR: 150 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (D Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 20
END: 13
AGI: 22
MANA: 15
LUK: 5
N.P: 5
Points: 40
Money: $4,200
Traits
[Infinite Altereactor] - Trait - Passive
Keeps the user in top shape by burning calories into Mana, due to the nature of it becoming Infinite, an Infinite amount of power can be stored within it.
Stored Mana: 920 MP
Max Output from Altereactor: 4,000 MP per Minute (Level: 20/100)
Items
[Cross-Calibur - Rank: A+/A++]
Cross-Calibur: Twin Black Dragon Sword of Promised Victory, The Noble Phantasm of Mysterious Heroine X Alter, it takes the form of The Normal Excalibur but with a faint red glow around it's blade.
N.P Incantation
« I have been waiting for this moment."
"Altereactor, critical limits exceeded. Through my darkness's brilliance, return to elementary particles!"
"...Cross-Calibur! »
N.P Cost: 300 MP
Damage: 500~1,000
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1~99
[Oathkeeper and Oathbreaker - Rank: A/A+]
A pair of gloves that powers the wearers hand to hand combat.
- +10 Levels to Hand to hand combat when wore
- +50% Speed with Hand to Hand combat
Damage: 250~500
Skills
[Gamer's Mind - LVMAX - Passive]
Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological mass effect
[Gamer's Body - LVMAX - Passive]
Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all mass effects
[Incarnation: Sword - LVMAX - Passive]
Due to your Affinity and Origin of Sword, you excel in every aspect of the blade.
- +1,000% Learning Speed of Sword Based Skill
- +500 Effectiveness of Sword Based Skills
[Incarnation: Energy - LVMAX - Passive]
Due to your Affinity and Origin of Energy, you excel in every aspect of Energy itself.
- +1,000% Learning Speed of Energy Based Skills
- +500 Effectiveness of Energy Based Skills
[Sword Mastery - LV75 12.19% - Passive/Active]
The Act of the Sword is difficult to master, but rewarding if done so.
- Passively grants +75% to STR and AGI when wielding a sword
- Increase Speed with sword by +150%
- +150% Damage dealt with Swords
[Hand to Hand Combat - LV5(15) 2.66% - Passive/Active]
The Art of The Fist, an Elegant yet deadly art to have a means to an end.
- +5%(+15%) to Hand to Hand Combat Speed
- +5%(+30%) To Hand to Hand Combat Damage
[Physical Endurance - LV13 20.52% - Passive]
The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken.
- 13% decrease in damage taken by Physical attacks
[Fire Resistance - LV15 12.52% - Passive]
The Body's resistance to the element of fire
- 15% decrease in damage taken by Fire based attacks
[Limit Break - LV1 0.00% - Active]
Allows the body to surpass it's own limit for a short time to boost the user, but has backlash.
- 1% increase to one stat
- deals 10% HP to user for every minute in use
MP Cost: 100 MP to cast/10 MP per Minute to maintain
[Unlimited Blade Works - LV16 0.00% - Reality Marble]
The Reality Marble of Shirou Emiya and the Noble Phantasm of the Heroic Spirit EMIYA and his Fate/Extra counterpart, and now it belongs to you.
- Reality Marble pulls in those in combat with the user
- User can store up to 80 Blades
- User can't activate Unlimited Blade Works Reality Marble until skill level [?]
Cost: 436 MP per Minute
[Structural analysis - LV53 0.00% - Passive/Active]
The First skill any Magus will learn, as it is the one you can't blow yourself up with, simple, right?
- Takes 4.7 seconds to fully analyse something if touching
- Takes 9.7 seconds to fully analyse something with sight
Cost: 25 MP per Analysis
[Reinforcement - LV31 1.50% - Active]
A Skill that strengthens the the existence of an object, be it a blade, a building, or even air if you have a grasp of it.
- +310% sharpness to bladed weapons
- +155% Durability to items
- +62% to strength of object
Cost: 138 MP per Minute
[Projection (Trace) - LV81 87.16% - Active]
Due to your Incarnation of Sword, you are able to Use Projection to equal the level of the real deal, is easier to trace blades, but other objects are harder.
- +810% effectiveness of Tracing Bladed Weapons
- +81% effectiveness of Tracing non-Bladed Weapons
Cost: 48 MP per Trace, 5 MP/m to maintain
[Unlimited Void World - LV1 0.00% - Reality Marble]
The Specialised Reality Marble that belongs to ?, due to the nature of it not much is known about it.
- Copies [?] into the Reality Marble
- Drags those within a 10 m radius into the Reality Marble
- Reality Marble cancels all Magic minus the user's
- User can't activate Unlimited Void World Reality Marble until skill level [?]
Cost: 750 MP per minute
[Energy Perception - LV2 73.00% - Passive]
A Skill that allows you to mimic types of energies you see or come into contact with
Types of Energies Mimicked: Fire (0.5)
- Chance to Mimic Energy on contact: 51%
- Chance to Mimic Energy on sight: 5%
[Energy Empowerment - LV1 0.00% - Active]
Allows one to strengthen a type of Energy they can mimic.
- +10% Power to Energy
- +2% Effectiveness of Energy Type
Cost: 50 MP per minute
[Energy Creation - LV15 17.27% - Active]
Allows you to produce Mimicked types of energies from your body
- can produce 1-85 units of types of energy
- User has minor control of where energy comes from
Cost: [Varies] MP cost
[Alter Lightning - LV71 15.25% - Active]
Shoot out a blast of red lightning.
Chance to shock: 71%
Range: 1-710
Cost: 29 MP per shot
[Alter Choke - LV21 73.27% - Active]
Allows the user to use Psychokenesis the choke one or more targets.
Targets: 4
Cost: 80 MP per second