Chapter 4: The Ghost Castle and Hatred

After deciding to kick back for the day and simply go to the Ghost Castle when it comes around, Jeanne decides to do some chores around the house and gave cooking a shot.

Due to repeating past life experience, you've gained [Cooking LV70]

...

Is her cooking really that good?

'Hmm... I'll need to do some baking... some tea and coffee making, and some other stuff if I want to get a job at a cafe, which could be fun, or maybe with my money I can make a special cafe to call my own?' she sighs before sitting at the table and doing a taste test of something she prepared.

[The Chosen Dish - Rank: EX+]

A dish so well prepared and made that it Transcends the skill of the Cooking god, any god would give you a favour if you gave this too them.

...

"Could use more salt I guess..."

The Author does an anime face plant before continuing on with the writing.

Finishing the meal and stating it was decent, she moved onto trying to gain new types of energies to mimic.

First thought was, how could she get herself electrocuted?

A simply fork into an unused outlet solved that, and also burnt her arm for abit before it healed.

The Oil used for the car was next, which... surprisingly worked...? so she now never had to pay for fuel...

Lastly, she raised her hand to the sky, after about ten minutes she got Solar Energy.

All of that got Energy perception 30 levels in total, so time well spent.

She used some weak electricity to train up a resistance to it, which she gained and got to level 25, afterwards she just did some work around the house, cleaning dishes, cleaning some messes here and there and so on.

"Jeez... Killing an army of zombies really makes normal life boring... I really hope school comes around so so I can do stuff... On that thought..."

She sighs as she finishes taking the trash out, maybe some casual training to kill time would entertain her?

She walks to the back yard and gets into a fist based combat stance, she closed her eyes and imagined fighting Turkeg, the Hobgoblin from the Goblin Cave.

After about a few hours she hears her mother call out to her, she opens her eyes and see a few notifications, few levels in hand to hand combat and Image fighting, which was maxed, but offered zero EXP towards levelling, oh well.

"Coming!" she walks up the steps to the back door and enters, she eats the sandwich that was prepared for her and decided to do some gaming and some drawing for the hell of it.

No skills were gained, so she guessed she didn't do enough, oh well...

watching TV for a few hours and doing nothing progress, nothing happened at Dinner, so she decides to head for the Ghost Castle.

once the time came, she entered, she was instantly caught off guard by the voice, "WHO DARES ENTER MY CASTLE?!" she looks around for a moment before shrugging, "Tis I, Rekter of your general shit." the Castle shakes completely and makes her looks balance, "Okay Jeanne, maybe don't piss off the ghost whose voice comes from everywhere and has a lot of power..."

She equips Oathkeeper and Oathbreaker before going onwards.

She gets to the first room, a ballroom of sorts, some ghost appeared in the air and fly at her, she tries to punch one of them but she goes through it and take around 100 dmg, she jumps out of the rest of them.

"Right, Ghost, you're an idiot Jeanne... This is why I need an intelligences stat..." she de-quips her gloves and points her palm at them, "ALTER LIGHTNING!" bolts of lightning shoots out at all directions of the ghost and incinerates them.

OVERKILL!

...

"I hate that I cant hurt them physically..."

You killed 10 Ghost LV15, 4,000 EXP (+10% Overkill) (x4) [17,600 EXP]

You've levelled up

"Well, at least I know their level 15 now.." she looks around before shrugging, "Eh, it'd be a good time to try Alter Form." after a moment her hair turns bleached blonde/silver and her eyes shine golden yellow, "heheh, let's kill them all..." Is it possible for someone to be scared of their own voice and personality if it took a 180?

yeah... you could probably guess that happened, on a side note she didn't know ghost could choke to death...

apparently Alter her is kill happy, good to know!

Also got alot of EXP.

You've killed 42 Ghost LV15, 16,800 EXP (+10% Overkill) (x4) [73,920 EXP]

You've levelled up x3

For Reaching level 25, you've gained a Perk point.

[Alter Form] levelled up x20

[Observe] levelled up x5

She sighs before glancing around, "Hey Ghost King-person-thing? wheres the hidden room in here?" she asked out loud, and a moment later that voice from before rings out.

"WHY WOULD I TELL YOU THAT MORTAL?!"

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"Cause the last time i looked for one i got fed up with it and blew a hole and a wall, and since i now know i can do that I Will literally blow everything up just to find it."

A few moments later, a soft 'fine' came from the ghost and started guiding her to the hidden room.

She looks into the dark room that was behind a door, she had blown up just to spite the Ghost talking to her, she could make out some candles and an alter in the distance, "Hmm... If i've learnt anything from video games, this is a mini-boss or event-boss room..."

She readies to use an Alter Lightning before heading in.

The room lights up and a abomination crawls out of the ceiling, it was a malformed mess of flesh and blood, "Okay... that's gross..." she fires the Alter lightning at it and it screeches in pain before dashing at her, she used Reinforcement to jump out of the way.

"Okay, since you're not a Ghost, I can enjoy this!" She enters her Alter form and equip Cross-Calibur, "Let's enjoy this dance!" she laughs for a moment before blocking a swing from it and cutting off one of it tentacles.

She jumps a good distance away before using Observe on it.

The Abomination LV50

He who wishes to die

HP: 85,000/85,000

MP: 40,000/40,000

STR:80

END:70

AGI: 30

MANA: 40

LUK: 0

She noticed that it's MP would go down for a moment before it returned, along with regrowing it's Tentacle, "Oh great... it regenerates..." she puts her hand up and the whole beast is held in the air by Alter Choke.

"hmm... I cant find your neck... Oh well, everywhere works just as fine." she clenches it into a fist and starts to crush The Abomination into a small orb, she could tell it was dead by this point but still continued.

after about 10 minutes of doing this she floats the now marble-sized orb of dense flesh and blood towards her.

[The Orb of Hatred - Rarity: EX]

This orb is made from a being of pure hatred and pain, if consumed, the user will turn into an Abomination, just like what it was before.

- Grants [Abomination] Trait

- Chance of Staying Human: 0%

She reads it a few more times before shrugging and exiting out of Alter Form, "That was honestly disappointing..." she walks up to the alter it was probably protecting and saw...

A little girl, no older then 6 on the alter, cut opened and drained of all her blood...

...

"That Ghost King is dead..." she entered Alter Form again and used Limit Break on her agility, she glances at the notifications she got for the fight.

You've Killed The Abomination, 20,000 EXP (+25% unique kill) (x4) [100,000 EXP]

You've levelled up x3

Trait: [Avenger] Unlocked

[Avenger] - Trait - Passive/Active

You are a being of hatred, and will stop at nothing until you get revenge for what ever has given you this hatred.

- +10% to all damage

- Alter Form effect x10

She doesn't care at the moment, all that was on her mind was simple, torment that ghost for what it did.

She ran forward with speed she didn't know she had, but didn't care, she broke through the door and spot a person on a throne with white hair.

Ghost King Cloud LV75

The Resurrected

"Ah, I see you've made it to my lair Huma-"

BOOM

Jeanne wasted no time in trying to kill him, firing off a barrage of Alter Lightning towards him, hitting him with a few while he dodges the others.

"Okay, guess you just want to fight!" he swings his arms and a mass of red orbs appeared in the air.

Mimicked Pure Energy (Red)

Unlimited Void World Updated

So she responses in kind, creating the same amount in the air above her and firing it while running towards him, shocking him at how easy she was able to use his own spell.

"Tch, Void Devour!" he called out, a wave of darkness shots out towards her and she disappears.

Mimicked Void

Unlimited Void World Updated

"Trace... On!" A Second Cross-Calibur appears in her hand while she appeared behind him, he turns in shock before a sword stabbed him in the back, It was the traced Cross-Calibur still held by Jeanne, trapping him too her.

She readies to impale him with the real one before she gets flung back by a burst of energy from Cloud.

The traced Cross-Calibur disappears as she gets too far away, she glares at him before putting her sword back in her inventory.

"Oh...? giving up are we?" the Ghost King mocked her, she got on one knee and held her hand downwards with the other on her wrist.

"An odd way to submit, i can tell, but i can see the gesture and will spare your lif-" "Spare my life? dont make me laugh shit for brains!"

She was glaring at him, "I aint ever submitting to a lowly scum like you!" lightning starts to come from her hand and shooting out in all directions.

"You insolent fool, you dare defy a king?!" She smirks for a moment, "What is a King..."

The Lightning comes out at maximum force, forming a ball so dense it was basically an over powered Chidori.

"To a Hero...?" she dashes forward, channeling the lightning throughout her body to speed it up while using Reinforcement to go even faster.

She reached him in an instant.

"DIE!" she impales him with the Chidori and lightning shoots everywhere, but she wasn't done, she kept it going so that it would damage his ghost too, not letting this piece of scum get his phase two.

After a few moments it dies down, and nothing remained but a charred copse of a false king.

"Serves you right..." she sits on the ground before exiting Alter Form.

You've killed Ghost King Cloud, 50,000 EXP (+10% overkill) (x4) [220,000 EXP]

You've levelled up x7

[Energy Creation] levelled up x20

[Unlimited Void World] Levelled up x9

"Well, my body feels like shit..." she took a glance at her HP, it was 250/5,000.

"Damn, I gotta stop cutting it close..." she stands up and let her HP regen to it's thing.

She goes to the treasury of this place and gets all the items she bothered to grab.

still no interesting weapons or armour, those will probably be in the level 50 dungeons or above, but she got around 8,000 Gold, which was... $36,800 AUD?

Yeah... no more dungeons for now...

When she got home it was around midnight, so she just decided to have a quick shower and go to bed, no really caring for anything.

she woke up up within the Void and met with Manus.

"Oh, hey Jeanne." She wavs at her, then Jeanne just glomps her around the waist, surprising for her a moment, she sighs out, "Tough day?" Jeanne just nods softly.

they sit there for a few moments before breaking apart, "So, what happened...?" Manus asked, making Jeanne narrow her eyes, "Well, I got the Avenger Trait." that put Manus on guard, "What? you're only meant to get that if you feel a extreme hatred, what could of did that?"

Jeanne explains what happened in the Ghost Castle and what was on the Alter.

"That's terrible..." they sit in silence for a few moments before a notification pops up.

Gamer Update available

Update now?

Y/N

She looked at it in confusion, Manus speaks up, "Oh, an Update is out? I'd suggest doing it, normally only good things come from it."

Shrugging, Jeanne decides to do it.

Thanks for Updating the Gamer!

New in this update:

- Damage is now displayed on skills

- Fixed LUK Stat (Players will keep items)

- Due to LUK Stat being fixed, all players are gifted one item in Tha Gacha Pull

- Fixed Shop

"There's a shop?" Jeanne ask, which Manus nods before going through a menu, Jeanne shrugs before going tot he shop too.

There were a bunch of items there, like truly god like items, even Skill books for stuff like Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon!

But a majority of the stuff costed millions of dollars, money she didn't have.

She sighs before they play games within the Void.

Next time of Fate of a Gamer

"Hmm... to Assembly, That's Life, Maths, first break, Arts, second break then Ability Control to end the day off. seems simple enough."

"I'm surprised I found this, it was meant to be at my grandparents house, but hey, I ain't complaining."

"Okay, what the fuck?"

Stats

Name: Jeanne Skylark

Level: 37 (5,380/37,000 EXP to next level)

Title: [Ally of The Void] - Permanent, [Wielder of Cross-Calibur] - Permanent

Race: Human (French/Australian)

HP: 5,000/5,000

HPR: 2,000 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: 130

Money: $40,795.25

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: 2,170 MP

Max Output from Altereactor: 4,000 MP per Minute (Level: 20/100)

[Avenger] - Trait - Passive/Active

You are a being of hatred, and will stop at nothing until you get revenge for what ever has given you this hatred.

- +10% to all damage

- Alter Form effect x10

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

[Cooking - LV70 36.12 - Passive]

How good one is at cooking.

- +70% speed in cooking

- +140% in taste of cooking

[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 - LV21 62.16% - Transform]

Corrupt yourself and give into the darkness of The Shadows.

- Gain Alter Appearance: Bleached/silvery blonde hair, golden eyes.

- 79%(790%) chance of Alter Ego taking over

-+42%(420%) to all stats

Cost: 600 MP activation, 600 MP/m Maintain

[Observe - LV6 63.12% - Active]

Allows one to look into more detail about the subject their looking at.

- can see name, title, Current HP/MP to Max HP/MP, along with stats

[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 - LV40(50) 17.5% - Passive/Active]

The Art of The Fist, an Elegant yet deadly art to have a means to an end.

- +40%(+50%) to Hand to Hand Combat Speed

- +80%(+100%) 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

[Electric Resistance - LV25 12.72% - Passive]

The Body's resistance to the element of Electricity

- 25% decrease in damage taken by electrical 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 - LV10 15.72% - 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 100 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 - LV32 12.60% - 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), Electricity (2), Gasoline (25), Solar (10), Pure Energy [Red](20), Void (200)

- Chance to Mimic Energy on contact: 81%

- Chance to Mimic Energy on sight: 32%

[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

Dmg: MANAx[Skill Level]

Cost: 5 MP per shot

[Alter Choke - LVMAX - Active]

Allows the user to use Psychokenesis the choke one or more targets.

Targets: 20

Snap DMG: MANA

Cost: 20 MP per second

[Image Fighting - LVMAX - Active]

Relive fights of your past to learn from even more experience.

- Can fight at original or equal level

- Will not gain any EXP minus Skill EXP

Cost: 0 MP per second