Chapter 28: Returning home and The War Begins
The group of 23 people all walk towards Konoha in silence, since no one had anything to talk about as they were keeping an eye out for any enemies, every now and then Alena or Ai would find a random bug and would kill it out of boredom.
Once they reach Konoha, the shinobi's go in while Jeanne, Aiden, Manus, Magna, Alena and Ai decided to wait outside until they were called in, when they were actually called in, firstly Jeanne spoke up, "Oooh, you've redecorated... I don't like it." which made the people present sweat drop, then Tsunade cooed at Alena for a moment, seems like Tsunade had a spot for kids, and then Tsunade looked at Jeanne, "When they told me you grew up alot, I didn't think they meant literally... Geez, you even have a kid now."
Jeanne smiles, "Well, I always did want to be a parent, just didn't know how to be one with a girl until a few years ago." Tsuande nods, "So... Tentacles?" Jeanne covers her face, "NOT YOU TOO!" she whines into her hands, making Tsunade laugh.
"I just wanted to see the reaction Jiraiya said you gave him. I'm quite happy with the result." she coughs into her fist, "anyway, Jeanne, who much stronger are you right now?" Jeanne thinks for a moment while mentally doing some maths,, "you know that earthquake I caused at the end of the mission nearly three years ago?"
Tsunade nods, "I can do about three times that with a single punch now." 'if we're excluding that special skill I got.' Tsunade looked shocked, "Wait, in your max state with your cursed mark, sage mode and bloodline?" 'Oh hey, they actually call it a bloodline now.' Jeanne nods.
"Yep, I could probably level a city with a punch now if I enter all those modes. Also, some news on that, my back no longer gets stiff when I do it." Jeanne smiles at the slight joke at the torment that was getting used to her body forcibly growing and dissolving bones out of her back.
Tsunade sighs before looking at the others, "And what can everyone else do?" Jeanne tilts her head, "Well, obviously Alena isn't going to fight anytime soon, neither is Ai. Aiden, is pretty close to my base state, Magna is abit better then him, and my wife could kick my ass."
Tsunade looks at Manus in shock, "wait, she could beat you in a fight." Jeanne laughs, "No, I said she could kick my ass, if she went all out I wouldn't be surprised if the Elemental nations were gone by the end of it. If we fought all out, I'd probably get a punch in before being knocked out or killed."
Manus hugs Jeanne from the waist line and looked up at her while pouting, "I would never kill you..." Jeanne laughs while patting her head, "There, there... be a good girl and Jeanny will summon Eater of Worlds to play." Manus jumps around while cheering out 'yay!' and 'Eater-chan!'
Tsunade was confused as all hell and asked what she meant, "Oh, right. should probably explain that part..." Jeanen coughs into her hand, "In order to marry Manus here, I had to have a blood transfusion of hers into mine, namely marking me as her eternal wife, and don't worry, everyone here knows of my nature as that and the fact I'm immortal. After all, Manus is a goddess." Tsunade stares for a moment before grabbing Sake out from under her desk and took a swig of it.
Once she swallowed it, she mutters under her breath, "I am too damn sober for this..." Jeanne nods, completely understand that, but since she can't get drunk she was kind of envious, and then Aiden decided to speak up, "Why are you know nodding like you understand it?"
She turns to him for a moment, "I put up with this group of people daily, I love you all as my family, but Aiden, you get drunk every second day at the bar, Manus has no tact, Magna... you're alright when your not messing with Aiden, and I have no problems with the kids... Yet anyways." she shrugs before turning to Tsunade again.
What surprised Tsunade though is that all five of them Jeanne just called out just nodded in understanding, and were smiling while doing so.
'What the hell is the dynamic of their group...?' Tsunade sighs before speaking, "And that part about 'Eater of Worlds'?" Jeanne looked confused before her mouth goes 'ooh...' "Right, sorry. Got distracted. Manus is the goddess of the void between worlds, and as such, when I got her blood I am able to use void energy to an extent. The 'Eater of Worlds' is a sentient creature I can summon with that energy."
'At least this way I can explain my void abilities I cultivated over the years.' Jeanne thinks to herself before stretching, "Well, it's starting to get later, and we need to find a place to crash now." Jeanne turned and begun to leave, but not before Tsunade spoke up, "Wait, Jeanne. We have accommodation prepared for you." she lightly threw a kunai with some paper attached to it, which Jeanne caught easily, and she read the paper, which had an address on it.
"When everyone went to go look for the unknown Phoenix, we suspected all the workers and the children that popped up around the bar every now and that they would come as well. That address leads to a six bedroom house, complete with kitchen, bathroom and lounge room, All payments on the house aren't needed, as we've already done paper work for it to be free to stay for the next ten years."
Jeanne sighs, just her luck that it was already taken care of... She wanted to share with Alena what it was like to pick out a house to live in...
"Thanks Hokage-sama." she waves goodbye before they walk out and head to the address, after a few minutes of walking they arrive.
And then proceed to take a bunch of shit out of Jeanne's and Aiden's inventories and furnishing the place to their liking.
Jeanne sighs as she sits on the couch and taking a swig out of her flask.
"Hey mommy?" she turns to see Alena climbing over the back of the couch and plopping down on her butt, "Yes sweetie?" she smiles at her daughter, "Ai-chan's been acting weird lately." Jeanne raises an eye brow and stands up, "I'll go see what's up." Alena nods before going to Manus while Jeanne went up to Ai's room, she politely knocks on the door, which Ai answers.
"Oh, hey Aunty." she says with a smile, Jeanne smiles at her before realising her eyes were looking up every few moments, Jeanne decides to speak up, "Ai-chan, is something wrong?" making the ten year old flinch before stuttering, "N-No, of co-course not!" her voice also rose abit, making it pretty obvious she was lying.
Jeanne kneels down and puts a hand on her shoulder before using Observe on her.
'Ah... That's happening now? It should of happened in a month or so according to Aiden.' Jeanne smiles as she mentally closes the menu, "Ai-chan, are you perhaps seeing floating words or panels every now and then?" Ai looks at her in slight fear, Jeanne pats her head lightly, "Don't worry, that's meant to happen. Let's get your father, he can explain it better then me."
She nods before following Jeanne, they walk into the back yard and see Aiden sitting with Magna, after a quick explanation Aiden nods before motioning Ai to come over to him.
He sits Ai on his lap before speaking, "While very rare, people like me and Jeanne have kids from time to time, however, due to the fact Magna wasn't like us, it didn't activate at birth, but instead activated some time after your tenth birthday." he waves his hand forward and opens alot of panels at once.
"For us, this is considered normal, while to normal people like you or your mother, it'll be weird at the beginning, but I'm your father, what kind of dad would I be if I didn't help you understand all of this?" he smiles at her, "So, Ai-chan, why don't we start?" she nods after a moment, and Aiden starts to take her through a tutorial about the menu's he even used some money he had on hand to buy a monster summon stone for a weak monster and taught Ai how to use The Gamer in combat.
Alena came at around halfway through the tutorial, and Jeanne decided to play with her for abit, namely summoning a bird made of void and had it shoot little pellets of void energy at Alena slowly, making it a game of tag where if she got hit she'd have to shoot a pellet at the bird and hit it and vise versa.
After about an hour, they hear a knock at the door, which Jeanne goes to answer, it was an Anbu, "You're presence is required by the Council." before disappearing, causing Jeanne to sigh.
'What the hell do they want not even two hours after I move back in?' she goes to tell the others she'll probably be busy for awhile before disappearing.
She appears in the Council chambers and sees the Civilian council was the only people there, "Ah, I see everyone isn't here, I'll go fetch them."
"Now wait a momen-" Danzo didn't get to finish because Jeanne disappeared and after a few moments the Clan Head members of the council as well as Tsunade walked in along with Jeanne, The Hokage calmly sits down and looks at the civilians, "Now, would you mind explaining to me why the civilians where meeting with A Sannin in a Council meeting without the Hokage or the Clan Heads?"
Jeanne was behind Tsunade with a hand over her mouth covering the shit eating grin she had, but her eyes were shaped in a smug way that scream 'you just got caught with your hand in a cookie jar' towards the civilian council, pissing them off.
"Well, We wanted to meet with Jeanne to question her for her long absent and why she appears to be much older then she should be." Tsunade turns to Jeanne, whose face was normal again, "Sure, you can tell them about the mission, just not that little tib-bit." Tsunade nods before facing the civilians, "Jeanne had been on a mission for the past two years and nine months, this mission was kept off the records due to the context of the mission that would inform our enemies of incredibly powerful artefacts that predate the Age of Chakra."
That caught everyone's attention, all of which looked at Jeanne, "Ah, right, I haven't given my report yet, have I?" she coughs into her hand before speaking, "During my long term mission, I managed to recover six of these artefacts, all of which shall remain unnamed for the moment until I can show them to the Hokage alone so she may register them to my name." this confused everyone, which Danzo decided to voice the question on their minds.
"Why register them to your name if you have six? Wouldn't it be better to give one of each to different people?" Jeanne closes her eyes before she smiles, "Alright, I'll pull one out now, if you can hold it, then you may decides who gets it." she reaches into her pockets and pulls out her sword, Soul Ripper.
She calmly places it on the ground and uses gravity control to make it twelve times heavier, Danzo walks over and tries to pick it up, only managing to make it buge abit, Jeanne walks back over and lifts it with ease while cancelling the gravity increase on it, 'Gotta love magic when people can't sense it.' She puts the sword back into her pocket, surprising everyone, she realises they're probably thinking on where it went, so she decided to make a joke, "Ah, that, don't worry, it's bigger on the inside."
She internally laughs at the second Doctor Who reference she made today.
"What happened with the weapon? Why couldn't Danzo-sama pick it up?" A pink haired woman says in a snobby tone, Jeanne turns to her, "Ah, well, it turns out these artefacts can only be used by someone of decent of the original owner, that person being me, and my daughter but she's too young to hold any of these." the clan heads nod in understanding, as they were used to the idea of clan secrets and heirlooms as they belong to clans.
After about two hours of arguing with the civilians, they finally drop the issue and let Jeanne go home.
She sighs as she has dinner with her family before tucking Alena into bed before going to sleep with Manus.
She wakes up the next morning before getting called to the Hokage's office for an assignment, along with Aiden, Manus and Magna.
They stood to attention, some more serious then others (Manus wasn't really paying any attention at all) While Tsunade spoke, "Alright, I know you only just got back, but we'll have to mobilise units right away to the front lines." Tsunade takes a picture and shows it to them, it was of White Zetsu Clone that was in the Fourth Great Shinobi War.
"These are the main forces of our enemies, as you can guess, they're not really human, as you can tell, when killed one turns into a tree, they can perfectly disguise as another person and even mimic their chakra perfectly, we've lost a great deal of Medic-nin due to these beings pretending to be our wounded soldiers." Jeanne frowns before walking forward and picking the picture up, "Do all of these beings look the same?"
Tsunade nods, "From the reports, every single one is the same." Jeanne sighs before speaking, "Well, in that cause they have somewhere where these things come from, if we find that location we may be able to cut off their supply of soldiers, making it so killing one actually does something instead of it being replaced." Tsunade thinks for a moment, "Yes... That makes sense, but where or what could it be?" Jeanne thinks for a moment.
"They turn into tree's after they die, right?" Tsunade nods, "Do they perhaps have a connection to the First Hokage's wood style?" Tsunade thinks for a moment, "It's unlikely, but possible I guess." Jeanne thinks for a moment before closing her eyes, "Did you have anyone who could use Wood Style?" Tsunade nods.
"Yes, we had an Anbu member capable of using it, however he went... missing a few... months ago..." Realisation seems to don on Tsunade, "Phoenix Sannin Jeanne Muko, you're first mission is to locate the missing Anbu member Yamato, a user of wood style ninjutsu, and rescue him if he is captured against his will or bring him in for questioning if he is doing so willingly." Jeanne nods to her before stepping back.
Tsunade looks towards Aiden, Magna and Manus, "Do you have anything to possibly contribute?" she asks them, making Aiden step forward, "you said these beings are the main forces. Then what are the special forces?" Tsunade nods, having expected this question, "yes, the forces Commanders consist of ten individuals, the ten members of Akatsuki, the ones we know about thanks to your information are Itachi Uchiha, Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, Kisame Hoshigaki, Deidara, and four unknown members."
Aiden nods, "Do you have any of their whereabouts? Magna and I could go and easily deal with a few of these commanders in only a week." Tsunade thinks for a moment before handing him a scroll, "That has all of the known Akatsuki hideouts on it that we've discovered, search them and try to find other clues to their locations from there." Aiden nods before stepping back and absently reading the paper over with Magna so they had an idea where to go.
"And you, Manus... I take it you just want to go with your wife?" a quick nod later, Tsunade sighs, "Alright, once you two find Yamato and you return him to us, you'll set off to the front lines to help shorten the numbers of enemies. Understood?" the two nod before Tsunade stands up, "Alright, you four are dismissed, and don't worry, while you four are gone Alena and Ai will be staying in the Hokage tower for their protection."
The four suppressed a laugh, this place probably needed protection from the two kids if they joined forces to prank it, since Ai is close to Jounin strength while Alena is closing in on her.
After that, they leave to go tell their daughters what was happening, although they are sad, they understand and promise they won't make too much of a mess in Konoha while they're gone, already telling their parents the two had something planned...
Which they were totally on board with, so after giving them the supplies and money needed to do all the pranks the two had planned, the four head out on their assigned missions in their groups, with Magna flying Aiden to the hideouts while Jeanne flew Manus all over the place trying to locate where Yamato was at so they can stop Zetsu production with them being strengthened by Hashirama cells.
Whenever they got close to a battle field, Jeanne would stop time and deal with half the army, before flying off.
After three days of constant searching, they find where the Zetsu's are being produced from, Jeanne stops time and taps Manus on the shoulder, allowing her to move as well before they walk around the place.
"Man, they must of known we were coming..." Manus mutters as they look at all the Zetsu's frozen by the time stop hurrying out of the underground hideout, which they killed as they walked by by using the void element to wipe them from existence.
They get to the main room, they spot a person stuck in the wall and a ton of Zetsu's trying to get up the ramp, Jeanne used more void to wipe them from existence before getting to the wall and using earth magic to pull Yamato out before continuing time.
After a few minutes Yamato woke up and looked at them, "Who...?" she smiles at him, "Don't worry, we were sent to rescue you." and after take they fly back to Konoha.
Aiden and Magna flew off towards their fifth hideout since this mission started and landed outside, it had a giant boulder at the entrance, which Aiden used his scythe to slice into bits, "So annoying..." he sighs while the two enter, "Seems like we've been found, eh Sasori? Hm!" Aiden looks up at a blond haired man and a hunched over man with a bandanna over his mouth.
"Deidara and Sasori, I presume?" Aiden states, actually surprised to see the two of them but was hiding it well, the two look at him, "Hmm? The Deathly Healer is here? What business do you have here?" Aiden grins before dashing forward, surprising Sasori with his speed, "Nothing much really!" he ducks under a tail coming out of Sasori before bringing a hand down on the shell that made the disguise for the puppet person.
"Just looking to take your life!" a giant earthquake occurred and the cave they were in collapsed and caved in.
After a few moments the four jump out of the rubble and engage in combat, with Aiden and Magna completely thrashing the two Akatsuki members, after awhile the two members cut their loses and tried to escape, only for Sasori's legs and arms to disappear and Deidara to become paralysed.
"What the-?!" Deidara was shut up but Aiden stomping on his head, knocking him out, while Magna ripped out the core of living flesh from Sasori's puppet body, effectively killing him, Aiden shrugged before increasing the pressure on his foot and crushing Deidara under it.
"Ew... I got brain on my boot..." he uses fire to evaporate the blood and brain from his clothes before sealing the two bodies into scrolls, the two looked at each other for a moment before shrugging, they got what they came for.
So with that, they left for Konoha.
Aiden and Magna was giving their report as well as collecting the bounty for the two Akatsuki members when suddenly Jeanne and Manus appeared with Yamato on the floor, "Uh... Welcome back Jeanne, Manus... Why is he on the floor...?" Tsunade asked slowly, Jeanne gave a deadpanned answer, "I didn't want to carry him anymore." Tsunade looks exasperated while Anbu took Yamato.
"So blunt..." she sighs before speaking up, "Well, you've managed to rescue one of our operatives, for that I thank you, You'll get a day off before having to go to the front lines to fight, understood?" the four nod before the go home.
Jeanne and Aiden are tackled to the ground by their respectful children, "Mommy!/Daddy!" the two land with a thud while laughing, Magna was also laughing while helping Aiden up, Manus however...
"L-Little Alena-chan doesn't w-want to hug me first..." she was crying while curled into a ball, the Eldritch being and their daughter walks over to her and gets a blanket out and rolls her up like a sushi roll and walk inside before the three lay on the couch hugging, after a while Manus stopped crying and phased out of the sushi roll, making Jeanne and Alena pout at her.
After that, the two families chill for abit before Jeanne stands up and walks into another room, Aiden leans forward to look past everyone on the couch to see the door she went in, "She's gone to work on that again?" Manus nods, "Yeah, she really wants to finish it before we leave for the next world, since she found most of her items she apparently created in the past, that will be her second personal creation, so she's putting alot of time into it."
Aiden sighs, "Jeez, you think she'll make another one for us?" Manus thinks for a moment, "Well, she has all the materials for it already, but is having troubles getting it to work properly, once she does that you can try asking her." he shrugs before the five decide to boot up their game console and began playing Mario party mini-games.
Meanwhile, Jeanne was in her personal workshop working on her biggest project... probably ever, and it was so annoying!
"Why can't I get it to take a specific amount of MP instead of a percentage of my MP Regen?" she sighs while continuing her work, she told herself that unless it was needed for a part, she wouldn't use Alteration to cheat her way through this.
She sighs before closing a hatch on the device she was working on and taking a step back and inspecting it, "Mostly all of the necessary components are here, fitting them into it will be annoying, but putting on the design should be easier." she sighs while messing around with all the tools she had, trying to figure out what to do next.
She looked at the frame of her device, she had made it out of similar metal to her sword, it was only abit softer, but damn near nothing could damage it expect maybe her own sword.
She makes sure to check everything on it before deciding to assemble it all together, the frame, suspension and front fork made the chassis while she installed the engine, transmission and final drive, she installs the wheels and tires along with the breaks and then connects everything to an instrument panel with a speedometer, odometer and tachometer.
She looks over it before using observe on it.
[Magic Motorcycle - Rank: A]
A Motorcycle that uses magic to fuel it, it's well crafted.
Durability: 9,999,999/9,999,999
Speed: 1% MPR = 1 KPH
Special skill: Allows the user to form a platform of magic under the Motorcycle to drive in the sky.
She looks over it, it still wasn't good enough compare to everything she had... hell she could fast walk faster then this thing... though the air travel without using fire was sort of neat she guess... she had no idea how she even got that on this thing...
Although... if she got a skill in riding Motorcycles it'll probably get faster... she decides to use her laptop to look up some engine designs, she found one that will probably work to double the speed as she only had a max of 100 kph, she managed to find an engine that can produce enough power to go 200 kph.
'Hmm... but that was on a different design. it'll probably yield a different result for mine...' she sighs before going with it, the worse that can happen is that she just doesn't use the inline-three engine design she found.
After about an hour she decides to use Alteration so the new engine fits in and checks the stat, turns out it actually worked and it now went 200 kilometres per hour.
She sighs before getting up and looking over the vehicle she's made, 'Hmm... well the main body is finished, now I'll need to put the armour on it.' she uses alteration to physically bound the armour to the motorbike, making sure she still had access to everything needed to use it.
She also made it so the wheels change to off-road or on road tires when needed, so she'd never need to change the wheels.
She stares at her creation, it was the same design as the motorcycle from Honkai Impact 3rd, it belonged to Herrscher of Reason, cause that bike was awesome, the only thing different was that the face on the bike was of her own helmet in design.
That and it was coloured to be black and red, it was awesome and could hold three people on it at once due to the fact that that the seat was fucking massive.
She looks it over before nodding to herself, she opens her inventory and after some meddling with it, she manages to get a 'Mounts' option on her equipment and equipped the bike to that.
"Alright... I'll test it tomorrow." she smirks before leaving the workshop after getting changed back into normal clothes.
Aiden decides to speak up, as he was the only one in the living room as the others went outside to play, "How's the bike going?" Jeanne smiles, "Finished, I'm gonna test drive it tomorrow." Aiden grins, "Awesome!" he gets up and walks over to her, "So, how fast can it go? Any special functions?"
Jeanne grins slightly, "It doesn't go as fast as I can normally, but it can create platforms to drive on in the sky." he rubs his chin, "That sounds awesome... Any downsides?" she sighs, "It takes a percentage of my MPR to drive it, instead of a set amount." he shrugs, "With out much MP Regen you've got, some percent isn't gonna do much, right? How about if you use the Altereactor?" she blinks for a moment.
"It... doesn't say I can't..." she cups her chin and starts to mutter for a moment before Aiden bonks her, "think about it later, let's go out and play with the kids, I've been waiting so we can go into a dungeon you're portals create, the kids want to experience it."
Jeanne sighs, "Isn't Ai-chan level 96?" he laughs slightly, "Yeah, she is, but still, I wanna see this one." she nods before heading over to everyone and inviting them to a party and they set out to the ID Portal that's opened that morning.
Once they get there, they notice it wasn't the normal blue oval it was meant to be, it was red this time, Jeanne shrugged and tried to enter it but a lightning bolt shocked her away, she was immune to lightning, so why did that push her back?
Aiden was also confused, portal's like this weren't normal, so information about them is weird, but he speaks up, "Hey Jeanne, use Observe on it." she nods before doing so.
[Event ID: Alternative Reality]
Participates: 1 per party [CANNOT EXCEED]
Minimum Level: 100
"Damn, it only allows one person to enter at a time... but it's called an Event ID, you know anything, Aiden?" she turns to him, making him frown, "Hmm... I've heard about a few Event ID before, they often give the participates a quest to clear a certain task within, like a 100 floor dungeon or a town being over run by demons and you'd have to save civilians while dealing with the threat..."
He shrugs, "I got no idea how one showed up though, last one was reported around eight hundred years ago, well before I was even alive, I'll need to visit the Nexus to put a report in after this." Jeanne nods before disbanding the party, which shocked the others since they don't normally see the portals without Jeanne's help.
"Well, only one person can enter at a time, so I guess I'll go first." the others nod while she steps through.
She looks around and finds herself in a forest and the sun was lowering in the distance, she sighs before walking around for awhile before... seeing the gates of Konoha...?
'Well, it did say Alternative Reality... So of course Konoha is here.' she shrugs before walking up to Konoha, but then she noticed something was very off about the place.
'Konoha is meant to be lively, so why can't I see a single person down the main street of Konoha...?' she takes a deep breath before spreading her senses and feeling an incredibly strong pulse of magic from inside the town, and soon gets a notification.
Quest Start!
Main Quest: Investigate THE DEAD WORLD
BIO: You've come across a ghost town, and not a single soul is in sight, but this presence... Who could use such magic in this reality?
Objective 1: Investigate What Happened
[More Objectives to come]
Bonus Objective 1: ?
Rewards
Normal Reward: 500,000 EXP, +1 Black Queen Skill
Bonus Reward: 1,000,000 EXP, 1,000,000,000 RYO
Accept?
Y/N
She reads it over before accepting the quest, this wasn't alot of exp compare to her level, it'll only give her 9 levels if she did the bonus quest (That included her x4 EXP), and she didn't see much of a need to complete it, since she had more then enough money for multiple life times.
She was more interested in that item, what could it possibly give? The thought of a new skill excited her!
Wondering through the cold streets of Konoha as night began to set upon the village, she tried to search for that source of magic, but it was always moving around, even if she got close with time stop the magic still moved around... a being that moves within her time stop is a terrifying one to face, because that meant it was strong enough to ignore the stoppage of time.
What was this feeling inside her? Thrill? This was the first time she found something that can counter one of her more over powered techniques, the fought of fighting it excited her unlike anything for the past 50 years in ID's Aiden used for their training! After getting so dull killing endlessly she found no joy unless she was fighting someone she knew could pose a threat.
She kept exploring, deciding to smoke a cigarette while doing so, after awhile she found the place she would be living right now back in reality, and...
It was destroyed, burnt to ash, and there were bodies everywhere nearby, they littered the streets, they all had pitchforks and still lit but barely alive touches that soon faded.
'What could of done this...? Something stronger then me in this reality or...' she shakes her head, the chances of that happening were next to none... she hoped...
She continued to explore, she continued to find bodies, and it seemed as though the number increased as she got closer to the Hokage tower, but as she got closer, she noticed words painted in blood along the walls of buildings.
'Liars', 'Thieves', 'Give it back', 'Kill', and 'Hypocrisy is contagious' along with many other words were written, but it seems as though the person or thing doing this was insane or mad in some way that made them do this.
As she got closer to the Hokage tower, that magic presence from before seemed to get closer, but she also felt a few other presences, chakra based ones, two of which were very familiar...
Her eyes widen before turning around and seeing nothing down the road leading to the gate, she sighs, maybe her nerves were getting abit out of control, but Gamer's mind should calm them down soon enough.
"I got you now!" she turned quickly to see a blond haired boy, around age 12 with deep blue eyes and whisker marks jump out at her with a kunai ready to stab her, her eyes widen slightly before stopping time to get out of the way, greatly confusing the kid.
'What the... Naruto? Why is he attacking me?' she waves her arm in front of her, "Whoa, wait, why are you attacking me?" she was heavily confused why Naruto attacked her, so she wanted answers.
"Why?! You killed everyone I cared about, you monster!" her eyes widen, SHE did this?! WHY? What could possess her to do something like this in this reality?
'And Naruto doesn't seem even slightly remorseful about attacking me, so that means he's really mature in this reality, or he's never met me before...' she'll try peaceful first, "Now calm down... I only just got here and I have no clue what you're talking about. Could you maybe explain it to me so I can understand it better?" she spot movement behind Naruto, and then she heard Sasuke's voice from behind him, "Naruto, move!" Naruto stepped out of the way and a Chidori Sharp Spear stabbed her in the arm, it did zero damage but it still stung at least.
"We need to retreat before she decides to kill us, you idiot! We're nowhere near her strength yet!" he called out, making Naruto glare at her before turning around and start running to Sasuke before he freezes, "SASUKE, BEHIND Y-" "MOVE BRAT!" Jeanne appear behind Sasuke and a knife stabbed through the hand that she raised, and it actually dealt damage to her HP.
'Shit, Magic imbued, I can't negate the damage with Physical Endurance.' she looked at who stabbed her, it was a younger version of... herself?!
She jumped back while grabbing Sasuke and landing near Naruto, the wound in her hand quickly healing, she sighs slightly before standing up fully and looking at the younger version of herself.
"Who are you?" she narrowed her eyes, she wanted answers and she wanted them now.
"Me? Me, Me me mememe? I should be asking that question! Hehehe... You look like an older me, but I ain't of this world, oh no I'm not, so you can't possibly be my mother or something. Who are you? Like another me? That'd be so cool! We can kill all these filthy liars together! Ne ne?" Jeanne sweat-drop slightly at how childish this version of her seemed... but...
'That's a clear sign of insanity when you're covered in blood...' indeed, this younger version must of been doing alot of killing recently to have so much fresh blood on her clothes.
So she decides to speak up, "Sorry, I'm rather new to this reality, could you perhaps explain it to me what's happening?" The younger Jeanne's eyes seemed confused for a moment, "Oh! So you're not a quest NPC! That's amazing, I didn't think I could meet others like me in this world~ Right, Right. I should Introduce myself, right Manny?" she looked at her weapon for a moment before nodding.
"Hiya! I'm Jeanne Skylark, Truth Seeker~ These filthy liars of Konoha lied to me about something they could help me with, but they lied!~ Lied Lied Lied~ And I HATE Liars, so I did what I always did, kill every single one of them to gain more experience!" The older Jeanne looked slightly disturbed, but could... kind of understand in a sense, she did hate liars but she'd never kill them for a simple lie.
"What was this lie that they told?" while the younger version seemed distracted Jeanne turned to the two behind her and whisper, "When I give the signal, we run, got it?" they nod subtlety, she looks back at the younger version of herself when she spoke up again.
"They lied that they could fix me, but I don't need fixing!" she pouted, "I just need to get stronger so nothing can break me so I don't need fixing ever again, that's smart, right?" she looked hopefully, making the older Jeanne frown, making the younger frown, "You don't trust me..." her eyes turn red and blood seem to flow from behind her to make weapons, "You're nothing but a filthy liar, I thought I could trust you!" She waved her hand forward and the weapons were launched forward, Jeanne grabbed the two kids and used her flame wings to fly off into the distance.
"You can run and hide, I'll kill every single liar in existence! HAHAHA!" she lands a distance away and made sure to keep her sense following the younger version of herself, she turns to the two kids, "Okay, so I think I got a good understanding of what's happening." they nod before running through Konoha to a hatch and they go underground.
After abit of walking Naruto called out, "Old Man, it's us!" a hidden doorway opens up and Sarutobi walks out and looks at Jeanne in shock before preparing for combat, "Whoa, Lord Third! This isn't the monster killing everyone." the third was suspicious but decided to trust his two Chunin, if the vest were indication.
She walks in and sees a bunch of injured and frail people, they looked at her in fear, which by this point she already knew what happened, she walks with the Hokage over to a makeshift desk and the two sit down, most of the people were listening since there was nothing else to do.
"So, what is your name?" Jeanne sighs before raising her hand, "Before I say anything, I just need to let you know that person outside and I are different people, understood?" the Hokage nods, so Jeanne prepares herself, "My name is Jeanne Muko, a different version of that girl out there from an alternate reality where I wasn't crazy. I was sent here due to an... ability I had to travel to different worlds for short periods of time." Good way to cover up the ID Portals.
The Hokage nods slowly, "It must be quite a shock to see yourself as a murder." Jeanne shrugs, "Not really different from my job as a ninja, just not taking orders in her case." The Hokage nods solemnly, such is the life of a Shinobi..."
She looks him over, he had bandages and scars all over his body, "Did she put you through the ringer or something?" the third Hokage raises his hand to cover a scar over his left eye, "One of the many mistakes that led to this... She came to Konoha with a confused expression on her face and we offered to help her... Over the course of the week she began to get more and more strange before she ate a person while they were still alive." Jeanne's eyes widen at that, what kind of person ate someone aliv-
'Wait...' she decides to take a gamble, "did one of or both of the whites in her eyes turn black while... eating?" the Third Hokage blinks in confusion before nodding, 'Alright, either she has a curse mark... Or she has what I think she does.' Jeanne sighs, "I have a pretty good idea what's up with her, at least slightly."
Everyone looks at her with curiosity, so she continues, "with my current knowledge, it's one of two things, either she possess Orochimaru's Curse Mark, or she is something known as a Ghoul, beings who can only feed off Human flesh." 'I'll need to observe her to actually get her information, but this is a good guess for now.' The Hokage looks at the ground in sorrow, "So we couldn't help her...?"
Jeanne sighs, "Most likely, unless you had a surplus of criminals lined up for execution, not much else you could do." she shrugs, she looks around and sees some familiar faces, she even saw Aiden, but he was missing an arm and an eye.
With a quick check of observe, she knew he wasn't a gamer and was just another person who got attacked by this realities version of her.
The Hokage speaks up, getting her attention back, "If you are aware of what she is... Do you know how to kill her?" Jeanne looks down for a moment while thinking.
"Not yet, I'll have to understand her abilities and limitations... After all, she is already able to cancel one of my more powerful abilities..." the hokage nods in understanding, "If you'd like, I can collect all information we have on her and give it to you." Jeanne nods and waits a minute, after that she reads the documents.
'Let's see... High speed regeneration, Incredibly speed... Blood Wings? Possibly a Kagune from Tokyo Ghoul. Lightning and Fire immunity - just like me - and seems to have a storage scroll full of endless knives whose injuries can't be healed with Medic-ninjutsu.' she sighs, that was probably the knife she got stabbed with, due to her Gamer Body she was able to ignore the damage, but it'd be brutal if she didn't have it.
"Alright, I have a good understanding of her abilities, not enough but I can get it once I start hunting her." she stand up and realises something...
Objective 1: Investigate What Happened - Complete
Objective 2: Help The Residents of Konoha Escape
The other Jeanne's energy was heading right towards them, "Shit! You need to get everyone out, she's about to-!" BOOM, the ground shook, scaring everyone inside, "Crap, she managed to follow me?" she turns to the Hokage, "try and get everyone out of here, I'll go distract her." he was in shock but nods a few moments later. Jeanne rushes up to the surface and fires a bolt of lightning at the other Jeanne to get her attention.
"Oh, There there! See Manny, I told you there was another me, but you didn't listen." she pouts at her knife, before waiting a few moments before speaking again, "I know, I'll just kill her too and add her to my collection~!"
Name: Jeanne Skylark (Alternative)
Level: 346
Prestige: 11
Title: [Killer of The Void Goddess], [Black Death]
Race: Half-Ghoul/Servant (Assassin/Berserker)
HP: 84,600/84,600
HPR: 10,000 HP/m
MP: 5,120/5,120
MPR: 11,000 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 128 (EX Rank)
Affinities: Blood, Hunger
Origins: Blood, Hunger
STR: 1,500 (EX Rank)
END: 1,000 (EX Rank)
AGI: 3,000 (EX++ Rank)
MANA: 2,200 (EX+ Rank)
LUK: 750 (A Rank)
N.P: 600
Jeanne looked at her younger self for a moment, this version of herself wasn't as strong as herself, but that title... 'Killer of The Void Goddess'...
"Hey, that title you have... How did you get it?" she asked her slowly, trying to stall for time while the others sneaked away.
"Oh, you mean this, this? Some time during my visit to the void I got really hungry, so I ate her, it was delicious!" The older of the two stares at the other for a moment in shock, before her eyes glow gold and her hair seems to become messy.
"How dare you..." she glares at her, shocking the younger Jeanne at the appearance change before her eyes widen and she turned around with a surprised look in her eyes as Jeanne was behind her with Soul Ripper ready and it stabbed into the youngers stomach, making her cough up blood.
They stayed like that for a moment before the one currently screward on a sword starts to laugh softly, before it picked up and became full blown laughter, "HAHAHA! You're so much more stronger then me, I guess I'll use this! Mad Enhancement!" Jeanne's eyes widen slightly before she get's punched in the face hard enough to send her flying across Konoha.
'You know, I should of expected that since she's a Berseker/Assassin Hybrid...' Jeanne lands inside a building with a sickening crunch.
A moment later, she climbs out of the hole before glaring in the distance where her younger alternative self was at, before closing her eyes, she really wanted to hold back to test herself against... well, herself, but if she got mad enhancement after all her stats were EX or more, then she may not have much of a choice.
Next time on Fate of a Gamer
"Never Ending Dead World!/Unlimited Blade Works!"
"Come out, Eater of Worlds!"
"So, we're the last line of defence from the Akatsuki having all nine under their control..."
Stats
Name: Jeanne Muko (無効 - Void)
Level: 616 (412,000/616,000 EXP to next level)
Prestige: 14 (Prestige at Level 950)
Title: [Wife of the Void Empress], [The True Black Queen], [Rising Phoenix]
Race: Eldritch Being/Servant (Caster/Avenger)
HP: 361,600/361,600
HPR: 60,000 HP/m
MP: 74,000/74,000
MPR: 37,500 MP/m
Magic Circuit: 370 (EX+++ Rank)
Affinities: Sword, Energy
Origins: Sword, Energy
STR: 5,000 (EX++++ Rank)
END: 6,000 (EX++++ Rank)
AGI: 7,000 (EX++++ Rank)
MANA: 7,500 (EX++++ Rank)
LUK: 1,463 (EX Rank)
N.P: 2,000
Points: 0
Money: 25,092,345,720,510,631,745,227 RYO
Traits
[Humanoid Eldritch Being] - Trait - Passive/Active
Type: Human/Dragon/Abomination
Due to your nature as a human turned Eldritch being, you can keep a humanoid form and can change into your Eldritch form.
You are immortal, while you can die you can always come back
Eldritch form: x10 STR/AGI/END, x5 MANA, gain [Incomprehensible Existence]
Passives: Mortals who gazes upon your Eldritch form will die from your very existence.
[Ultimate 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: 952,952,856,564,832 MP
Max Output from Altereactor: 250,000 MP per Minute (Level: MAX)
[Black Queen] - Trait - Passive
You are The Black Queen, and exist outside the concept of humanity, yet all will hear of you, your Tale is infinite and will allow you to travel to other worlds after death.
- Those who know of you as The Black Queen, will either have -100 or +100 Respect for you
- You can command an army of Void creatures
Items
[Soul Ripper - Rank: EX]
The Blade forged from the Will of the Black Queen, It holds untold powers within it if awakened
N.P Incantation
« The world will thrive in never ending darkness."
"My will shall pave a way to victory against even the gods."
"I will cast aside my hate, and store it within this blade."
"Go forth! and destroy all in my way!"
"Soul Ripper! »
N.P Cost: 500 MP
Damage: 1,000~1,500
Type: Anti-fortress
Range: 1~99
[The Queens Crown - Rank: A]
A crown once belonging to The Black Queen, only those of her blood can don it.
-+50% chance to have positive interactions
-+100% chance to be respected as a Queen from those who know of the Crowns Origins
[Staff of Void - Rank: EX]
A Staff made to harness the powers of the void, crafted by the Black Queen.
-+500% Magic Effectiveness
-3x Void Damage when used
[Key to Nowhere - Rank: A]
A key crafted by The Black Queen, allows the user to forcibly enter the void between worlds.
- Anyone in the users party can come through up to three minutes after the the key is used
[Grimoire of Destruction - Rank: EX+]
A book created by The Black Queen, it list all of the spells of magic she learnt in her immortal life.
Spells: 85,210
Pages: Infinite
-+200% Magic Effectiveness when held
[Queens Armour (P:3/3) - Rank: EX]
The armour fit for a Queen, it is said to be crafted from real dragon scales.
- +14% Physical Resistance
- If strength is above 150, no reduction in speed.
DEF: 100 x level
Enhancements: Dragon's Call, Hide Identity, Dragon Blood
[Black Queen's Motorcycle - Rank: A+]
A Motorcycle that uses magic to fuel it, crafted by The Black Queen
Durability: Indestructible
Speed: 1% MPR = 2 KPH
Special Trait: Wheel change [100 MP to change wheel type]
Special skill: Allows the user to form a platform of magic under the Motorcycle to drive in the sky.
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
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[Cooking - LVMAX - Passive]
How good one is at cooking.
- +240% speed in cooking
- +480% in taste of cooking
[Crafting - LVMAX - Passive/Active]
The ability to craft items better
- +360% quality of items crafted
- +240% speed of crafting
[Incarnation: Sword - LVMAX - Passive]
Due to your Affinity and Origin of Sword, you excel in every aspect of the blade.
- +1,200% Learning Speed of Sword Based Skill
- +600% 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.
- +1,200% Learning Speed of Energy Based Skills
- +600% Effectiveness of Energy Based Skills
[Stealth - LVMAX - Passive]
The ability to hide from others
- +100% chance to avoid detection if you are above their level
- -0.2% chance of being detected for every level they are above you.
[Avenger Form - LVMAX - Transform]
Corrupt yourself and give into the darkness of The Shadows.
- Gain Alter Appearance: Messy White hair, Golden eyes.
- 0% chance of Alter Ego taking over
-+4,800% to all stats
Cost: 100 MP activation, 50 MP/m Maintain
[The Immortal Mark - LVMAX - Active/Transform]
A Cursed Mark modified by the Goddess Manus to better suit the needs of the user.
- x12 STR/VIT/AGI, x13.2 MP Reserves (First Stage)
- x24 STR/VIT/AGI, x28.8 MP Reserves (Second Stage)
Cost: 100 (F), 250 (S) MP per minute
[Phoenix Sage Mode - LVMAX - Active]
The Sage Mode of Phoenix's, taught by the Elder Phoenix Solaris
- x24 STR/VIT/AGI
- Store up to [240,000] Nature energy in ones body
-Time: 1 second
Cost: 500 MP
[Time Stop - LVMAX - Active]
The Ability to halt the flow of time for all but you
Cost: 200 MP per second
[Resurrect - LVMAX - Passive/Active]
Just like a Phoenix, you can revive after death, remaining in the world you are in in a flame of rebirth.
- Able to control whether or not Resurrection happens
- No negative side effects for multiple Resurrections
- Can only Resurrect [10] times a day.
[Observe - LV72 16.85% - 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, short Bio along with stats and status affects
[Advanced Sword Mastery - LVMAX - Passive/Active]|
The Act of the Sword is difficult to master, but rewarding if done so.
- Passively grants +480% to STR and AGI when wielding a sword
- Increase Speed with sword by +480%
- +960% Damage dealt with Swords
[Bow Mastery - LVMAX - Passive]
A skill that allows user to freely handle bows.
- +480% Damage with bow and arrows
- +240% Accuracy when using a bow.
[Martial Arts: Phoenix Blade - LVMAX - Passive/Active]
The Art of The Blazing Sword, make your body into a Roaring Phoenix
- +288% to Hand to Hand Combat Speed
- +600% To Hand to Hand Combat Damage
- If used in [Phoenix Sage Mode], all attacks will burn target
[Physical Endurance - LVMAX - Passive]
The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken.
- 100% decrease in damage taken by Physical attacks
[Elemental Resistance - LVMAX - Passive]
Types: Fire, Lightning, Wind, Void
Resist Elemental damage 100%
[Unlimited Blade Works - LVMAX- 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.
(due to nature of Reality Marble, can only be used as Alter: Avenger)
"I am the bone of my sword."
"Steel is my body and fire is my blood."
"I have created over a thousand weapons."
"Unaware to the pain."
"Nor aware to victory."
"Went through darkness to forge many weapons."
"My life is regret, my hate is all that's left."
"So as I stand alone, Unlimited Blade Works!"
- Reality Marble pulls in those in combat with the user
- User can store an unlimited amount of blades
Cost: 350 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 - LVMAX - 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.
- Increase effectiveness of object reinforced by 1,500%
Cost: 10 MP per Minute
[Alteration - LVMAX - Active]
allows one to alter the shape of an object depending on their skill.
- 240% change in shape
- 240% change in mass
Cost: 25 MP per change
[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.
- +2,400% effectiveness of Tracing Bladed Weapons
- +240% effectiveness of Tracing non-Bladed Weapons
Cost: 5 MP per Trace, 5 MP/m to maintain
[Unlimited Void World - LVMAX - Reality Marble]
The Specialised Reality Marble that belongs to Jeanne Skylark, A world of infinite Magic,
"The Depth of Hatred..."
"The Height of Darkness..."
"I have brought to life countless spells."
"Created through Destruction.
"And lost to the living.'
"I've caused pain mastering the unknown."
"So as the lost souls call out..."
"We'll die together, In the Unlimited Void World!"
- Copies Spells into the Reality Marble
- Drags those within a 1,200 m radius into the Reality Marble
- Reality Marble cancels all Magic minus the user's
Cost: 400 MP per minute
[Energy Perception - LVMAX - Passive]
A Skill that allows you to mimic types of energies you see or come into contact with
Types of Energies Mimicked: God Magic (25), Fire (0.1), Lightning (0.2), Wind (0.2), Water (0.5), Earth (0.5), Solar (1), Void (10), Spirit (5), Chakra (0.1), Cursed Chakra (0.2), Bijuu Chakra (1)
- Chance to Mimic Energy on contact: 100%
- Chance to Mimic Energy on sight: 100%
[Energy Creation - LVMAX - Active]
Allows you to produce Mimicked types of energies from your body
- can produce 1-4,800 units of types of energy
- User has absolute control of where element comes from
Cost: [Varies] MP cost
[Psychokinesis - LVMAX - Active]
Allows the user to use Psychokenesis the move objects or target with ones mind
Targets: 24
Crush DMG: MANA
Cost: 20 MP per second
[Gravity Control - LVMAX - Active]
Allows one to control gravity
Max force: 240 G
Cost: 10 MP per second (per G)