Chapter 3: Zombie Hunting and Being Blunt
In a Black void, Manus watches over her friend before she wakes up, "Ah, you woke up, I thought you never would!" Manus hugs her friend by the waist while crying into her lap.
"Calm down Manus, I'm here... how am I here?"
Manus looks directly at her, "You... didn't check that your titles did...?"
Jeanne felt like face palming before checking her two current titles.
[Ally of The Void - Allows one to visit The Void while they sleep, and for 10,000 MP can summon the Entity within the Void, Manus, to destroy all before them.]
[Wielder of Cross-Calibur - The Cross-Calibur recognises you as it's Wielder, and wont hinder you when wielding it]
Ah, that would explain it...
"Wait, I can summon you?!" Manus nods, "Yes, sadly it wont be until the later leve-" "Uh, I got Altereactor, which can store an infinite amount of Mana, which means I could save up and just straight out summon you like... in a weeks time at most, few days minimum."
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"How did you get such an over powered Trait?!"
"I KNOW RIGHT?!"
The two talk with each other and play games for a couple hours before she felt a pull as the Void faded to white and Manus was waving at her.
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She get's woken up at around 5:00 PM, she looks to see a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes looking over her in worry, she just smiles weakly before getting out of bed.
"Jeanne, are you alright sweetie?" She looks at the woman she assumed was her mother here, and nodded slightly with a bored look on her face.
"Well, Dinner will be ready in an hour, so why don't you enjoy yourself?" Jeanne shrugs before glancing above her mother
Isabelle Skylark LV3
Mother of The Gamer
'Seems about right, barely sense any energy from her... wait, I can sense energy?' she waited a moment before her mother left and a pop up appeared.
Due to a special action, you've gained [Energy Sense].
[Energy Sense - LVMAX - Passive]
A skill that will give you a rough estimate on a persons energy reserves compared to The Gamers.
- Can Sense 200 to 3,000 MP from a person
Huh... seemed useful...
"Wait, aren't I meant to be getting less of these? I kind of did it so I wouldn't get a bunch of skills I couldn't keep track of..." sighing to herself she decides to have a quick 5 minute shower and gets into some comfy clothes, stuff she would be okay with wearing outside the house, namely cause she was leaving at 7:00 PM to go Zombie hunting.
Just then she remembered something important, "Fuck, I forgot to burn that dungeon down..." she groans before going to her computer and looking on her Steam account, some of her more favourite games weren't there downloaded, and they didn't even exist on the store...
"Right, in the past..." she stares at her - mildly impressive - list of games downloaded.
"Oh, DMC: Devil May Cry came out last year... it's not Devil May Cry 5 but it would do until it get's released in 2019, ah... never mind, this would get boring fast..."
"Action games just isn't going to cut it for me now I have these powers... do I have any puzzle or card games on here?" after a few minutes of searching she stops.
"I... didn't have Tiny & Big: Granpa's leftovers until 2018, namely cause it was on sale and it seemed fun, kind of is... eh, why not?"
She decides to play that for the next 50 or so minutes.
"Bored now..." she gets up and hears a voice call out 'Dinner's Ready'.
She walks into the kitchen and see three people, her parents and her older Brother.
They were sitting at the table so she sat too and quietly ate her dinner in the corner while they talked.
The food was... plain, nothing interesting in taste, maybe she should take up cooking? she did get a part time job as a chief when she was 17...
"So, Jeanne, how are you?" she looked up to see her father looking at her worriedly, "Fine, why?"
"Well, we were wondering where you went this morning, and why you came half an hour before lunch time?" she hums for a second, might as well play a joke.
"Do you want to believable answer, or the truth?" she asks plainly while poking her stake with a fork, "Truth please."
"I went into a portal that appear in the park nearby and fought a bunch of goblins, killed their king after an amazing duel, and got alot of money from their treasury."
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"What's the Believable answer?"
"I went for a very long jog."
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"Really?"
"Oi, it's the best I could come up with."
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"Do you have proof to the first one at least?"
Jeanne puts her hand under the table and put's $1,000 in 100 dollar notes on the table, making everyone gasp in shock.
"I made alot of money from that thing, also, speaking of which, can I leave at 7 tonight to go into another portal for more money?" Plus gain levels, items, skills, and such, but they don't need to know that.
"Jeanne... how much did the Treasury have in total?" She puts on a fake thoughtful look, "Around 2k, give or take a few hundred, if you want payment for letting me out i'll be willing to work out a deal of $500 per dungeon I go too." namely after hours cause i wont really be leaving the hours, since the portal will be in our yard, they don't need to know that thought.
"Jeanne... are you an Ability user?" huh? this is new, probably a this world thing, I just nod, get info before speaking.
"That's amazing! only 10% of the world have Abilities, what can you do?"
Shit, didn't plan this far! okay... just pick one ability and roll with it.
"I can absorb and mimic any source of energy my body comes into contact with, if I get burned, I can produce fire from my hands, if I get electrocuted, I can shoot lightning, stuff like that." they look at her in amazement.
"Wow, that's amazing! minus the whole you have to suffer damage from it for it to work..." Jeanne shrugs, "I already have Fire, downside it seems i'm not immune to my own mimicked energy, so i may need to build some kind of resistance to each element, which is probably a limiter on me."
They nod, completely buying the bullshit i just spoke, i guessing most abilities have a limiter on them, like, summoning swords would either be brittle or take time to form, or something like that.
She must have a A+ Bullshitting Skill...
She stretches slightly before standing up and washing her dishes before checking the time, "Ah, it seems the portal will open soon, I'm gonna go now." with walks into her room and gets some agile, yet warm clothing, she goes to her front yard and her family was watching as she just steps into the portal they couldn't see and she disappeared, shocking them.
Once inside the Zombie Realm, everything was the same, minus all the lights were out and a sense of dread was in the air.
"Oh right... forgot to put my stat points in, I should do that now..." a couple taps later she looks at her status page.
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: 2,000/2,000
HPR: 400 HP/m
MP: 1,665/1,665
MPR: 250 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (D Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 30
END: 20
AGI: 30
MANA: 25
LUK: 10
N.P: 5
Points: 0
Money: $3,200
Looks good to her, she equips Cross-Calibur and before she can run off she get's a notification.
Welcome to a Realm, an Identical version of your world with a twist.
No Human life is here and in order to 'clear' a Realm, you must defeat the Realm Boss, which spawns after killing alot of a certain enemy.
Realm Bosses will drop loot and all mobs around will disappear upon it's death.
That's all you need to know, Bye bye~
She swore this thing was run by a 10 ten old brat...
She jumped over her fence and lands to see...
"Oh... fuck..." thats around 20 to 30 zombies.
"Well, stress test time!" she uses Energy Creation to coat her Sword in fire, using 170 units of MP to do so, maxing out her fire output.
"BURNING CROSS!" she swings and a wave, shaped like an 'X' made of fire impacts and kills all of the Zombies.
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"huh..."
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"No Skill, Really? I guess moves involving just one skill don't get new ones... if I combine it with another then maybe... experiment later, kill now Jeanne."
You've killed 27 Zombies, gaining 2,700 EXP (x4) [10,800 EXP]
You've levelled up
You got $270
Due to special use of Noble Phantasm, Gained +7 N.P
Huh, useful.
And so began the slaughter of hundreds of Zombies as the night carried up.
After along while she noticed fewer and fewer were appearing, which meant one of two things, either she's killing them too fast, or she was getting close to her goal of the Realm Boss.
Along the way, and studied her surroundings to just try getting the Observe skill, since getting it was a pain in the ass.
You've Got [Observe] Skill.
"Finally..." she goes to check it out.
[Observe - LV1 0.00% - Active]
Allows one to look into more detail about the subject their looking at.
- can see name, title, Max HP and Max MP
Not much, but still nice to finally have it.
Just then a roar was heard, she turned around to see a giant undead monster, she uses Observe on it to get information.
Legion Zombie LV30
He who commands a horde
HP: 15,200
MP: 1,200
That... wasn't good...
She used Reinforcement to get to a safe distance and observe it's attack pattern, it was a zombie, so of course it was simply minded and one tracked.
After about five minutes of studying she readies Cross-Calibur.
She Dashes forward and gets close with Reinforcement, dodging to the side of a punch that hit the ground she transferred the Reinforcement to her sword and cut at the leg.
- 2,065 HP
Huh? why was she getting DMG notifications now? was it because of Observe?
Wait, hold that thought, she jumps back to dodge a kick and aimed her hand at the large zombie, "Alter Lightning!" a Mass of Lightning shoots out and impacts the Legion Zombie.
- 12,425 HP
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"You have less then a thousand health left, don't you...?" if her math was correct, it had 710 HP at the moment, she didn't know if it regened though, so no taking the chance, she jumps and stabs it in the forehead, a moment later it turns to blue Particles.
She lands on the ground and looks at the loot.
She picks up the wad of cash and puts it in her menu, adding it to her account.
+ $525.25 (A/N: I went and did the conversion of 500,000 Won to AUD in 2014 on that exact day, that was the outcome, trying to stick to timeline and all that)
Odd Number, but sure.
She picks up the three potions, automatically knowing what they do.
She picks up the skill book it dropped, but got a notification saying 'cannot learn skill due to conflicting Gamer Style'
She just chucks it into her Inventory, she could probably sell it to someone for a decent price...
just then, all the notifications from the constant battling finally came up...
You've killed 325 Zombies, and 1 Legion Zombie, 42,500 EXP (x4) [170,000 EXP]
You've Levelled up x12
[Sword Mastery] levelled up x25
[Sword Mastery] is Maxed
[Hand to Hand Combat] levelled up x30
[Projection (Trace)] levelled up x19
[Alter Lightning] levelled up x29
[Alter Choke] levelled up x79
[Reinforcement] levelled up x19
[Structural Analysis] levelled up x47
[Energy Creation] levelled up x35
[Limit Break] levelled up x12
[Energy Empowerment] levelled up x39
[Fire Resistance] levelled up x30
[Physical Endurance] levelled up x20
Magic Circuits Upgraded to C Rank
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"YEAH, OKAY, SURE!"
When she closed the notifications she got another one.
Due to mastering [Alter Lightning] and [Alter Choke], you've gained [Alter Form]
"Is that what i think it is...?" she decides to check it.
[Alter Form - LV1 0.00% - Transformation]
Corrupt yourself and give into the darkness of The Shadows.
- Gain Alter Appearance: Bleached/silvery blonde hair, golden eyes.
- 100% chance of Alter Ego taking over
-+2% to all stats
Cost: 700 MP activation, 600 MP/m Maintain
(A/N: Funny thing, Originally this would be called 'Alter Ego' but apparently after some research, that's already a thing and is a Servant class in F/GO!)
This... would be so broken and over powered at later levels...
She sighs before looking at the... whoa, 130 stat points she had.
She starts tapping away and putting the stat points where she believed them to go.
Name: Jeanne Skylark
Level: 23 (5,800/23,000 EXP to next level)
Title: [Ally of The Void] - Permanent, [Wielder of Cross-Calibur] - Permanent
Race: Human (French/Australian)
HP: 4,300/4,300
HPR: 1,720 HP/m
MP: 2,775/2,775
MPR: 500 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (C Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 50
END: 40
AGI: 75
MANA: 50
LUK: 30
N.P: 12
Points: 0
Money: $3,995.25
Everything looked good.
"Alright, time to head home..." she checks the time on her phone, which was running low on batteries, she sighs before getting an idea, Mimicking electricity...
Wait, didn't she already have lightning, couldn't she use that?
Note: You can only Mimic Foreign substances.
"Ah, fair enough..."
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"Oh god I'm talking to my own ability..."
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"Okay, I need sleep..." she goes back home and goes inside, she watches TV for an hour before having a shower, getting into pyjamas and falling onto her bed and going to sleep.
She wakes on one the couches within the Void, she sits up and looks at Manus trying to set up two computers, she shrugs and helps her out before she get's tangled into a bunch of wires again.
After setting them up they both boot up Steam and apparently, things in the Void are free, so downloading a bunch of games onto her account to play later, download is also instant in the void, dear god if she didn't have powers she'd want to live here forever... though it does look boring...
They start playing a bunch of multiplayer games and talk about life, nothing interesting really happened.
Jeanne wakes up in her bed and groans, she sat up and dismissed the notification telling her she slept in a bed, she checks the time on her phone, which had charged over time, it was 7:20 AM, about 10 minutes away from Dungeons refreshing, so a shower, breakfast, and a quick chat with her brother before getting the notification.
Daily Dungeons have spawned, Would you like a list?
Y/N
She taps the 'Y' button when out of view.
Orc Realm: LV30 Recommended
Location: D.J. Sherrington Park
King's Wasteland: LV200 Recommended
Location: D.J. Sherrington Park
Ghost Castle: LV15 Recommended
Location: Inala Shopping Centre (Only appears from 9 PM to 2 AM)
Now what the fuck is that middle one?
'I am INCREDIBLY interested, but I feel like I'll get put up against Gilgamesh, not a fun time for anyone...'
Now then... what dungeon will she choose?
Next time of Fate of a Gamer
"I hate that I cant hurt them physically..."
"Hmm... If I've learnt anything from video games, this is a mini-boss or event-boss room..."
"Well, my body feels like shit..."
Stats
Name: Jeanne Skylark
Level: 23 (5,800/23,000 EXP to next level)
Title: [Ally of The Void] - Permanent, [Wielder of Cross-Calibur] - Permanent
Race: Human (French/Australian)
HP: 4,300/4,300
HPR: 1,720 HP/m
MP: 2,775/2,775
MPR: 500 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (C Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 50
END: 40
AGI: 75
MANA: 50
LUK: 30
N.P: 12
Points: 0
Money: $3,995.25
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: 1,526 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
[Alter Form - LV1 0.00% - Transform]
Corrupt yourself and give into the darkness of The Shadows.
- Gain Alter Appearance: Bleached/silvery blonde hair, golden eyes.
- 100% chance of Alter Ego taking over
-+2% to all stats
Cost: 700 MP activation, 600 MP/m Maintain
[Observe - LV1 0.00% - Active]
Allows one to look into more detail about the subject their looking at.
- can see name, title, Max HP and Max MP
[Energy Sense - LVMAX - Passive]
A skill that will give you a rough estimate on a persons energy reserves compared to The Gamers.
- Can Sense 200 to 3,000 MP from a person
[Sword Mastery - LVMAX - Passive/Active]|
The Act of the Sword is difficult to master, but rewarding if done so.
- Passively grants +100% to STR and AGI when wielding a sword
- Increase Speed with sword by +200%
- +200% Damage dealt with Swords
[Hand to Hand Combat - LV35(45) 62.12% - Passive/Active]
The Art of The Fist, an Elegant yet deadly art to have a means to an end.
- +35%(+45%) to Hand to Hand Combat Speed
- +70%(+90%) To Hand to Hand Combat Damage
[Physical Endurance - LV33 16.12% - Passive]
The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken.
- 33% decrease in damage taken by Physical attacks
[Fire Resistance - LV45 2.52% - Passive]
The Body's resistance to the element of fire
- 45% decrease in damage taken by Fire based attacks
[Limit Break - LV13 15.62% - Active]
Allows the body to surpass it's own limit for a short time to boost the user, but has backlash.
- 13% increase to one stat
- deals 9% HP to user for every minute in use
MP Cost: 87 MP to cast/9 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 - LVMAX - Passive]
The First skill any Magus will learn, as it is the one you can't blow yourself up with, simple, right?
- Takes 0 seconds to fully analyse something if touching
- Takes 0 seconds to fully analyse something with sight
- Automatically Analyse any bladed weapon (wont cost MP)
Cost: 5 MP per Analysis
[Reinforcement - LV50 61.18% - 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.
- +500% sharpness to bladed weapons
- +250% Durability to items
- +100% to strength of object
Cost: 100 MP per Minute
[Projection (Trace) - LVMAX - 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.
- +1,000% effectiveness of Tracing Bladed Weapons
- +100% effectiveness of Tracing non-Bladed Weapons
Cost: 5 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 - LV40 15.52% - Active]
Allows one to strengthen a type of Energy they can mimic.
- +400% Power to Energy
- +80% Effectiveness of Energy Type
Cost: 30 MP per minute
[Energy Creation - LV50 13.26% - Active]
Allows you to produce Mimicked types of energies from your body
- can produce 1-250 units of types of energy
- User has minor control of where energy comes from
Cost: [Varies] MP cost
[Alter Lightning - LVMAX - Active]
Shoot out a blast of red lightning.
Chance to shock: 100%
Range: 1-1,000
Cost: 5 MP per shot
[Alter Choke - LVMAX - Active]
Allows the user to use Psychokenesis the choke one or more targets.
Targets: 20
Cost: 20 MP per second