13 - Teaming

"How were you able to bite me?" Master Victor asks frowning

"Ah that" i mumble a bit embarrassed "I can't follow orders if i can't think straight" i explain

"Wait, so if you got bewitched then my orders would be useless?" he asks concerned

"No, psychic magic has no effect on me. But if i'm starving, or starting to starve, sometimes i go into a feeding frenzy when i taste blood, it's only a momentary thing. The only other time my mental gets affected is when my corruption reaches 7/7, at that point i go berserk becoming nothing more than a wild animal until i'm full again" i explain "it's actually very embarrassing" i add with a slight chuckle.

"hmm" he thinks for a moment while starting to wrap his arm in cloth to stem the blood flowing "I see". "You can stand" he adds. I stand a little wobbly since i'm still missing toes.

"Master, may i request i hunt that human who incited this?" i ask following behind him as we begin to make our way out of the alley

"What? no!" he says surprised "if you killed him it would be too obvious, i'd be the one to get in trouble"

I laugh slightly "I wasn't asking to kill him, even i know that would cause trouble. I just wanted some blood from him to be able to use coexistence. I lost a lot of energy because of his orders, it would be an equivalent exchange if i took some of his blood, plus if i could appear human i would be able to accompany you in any building. You even said it yourself, whoever i bite needs to be a shitty person, i believe sir Jeff fits that condition" i say 'it's a win-win, there shouldn't be any reason to say no' i think to myself. Master Victor thinks about it for a minute before answering.

"No, we can deal with it legally later. For now, let's go to a dungeon" he says.

"Alright Master" I mumble a little disappointed. I could hear chatter in the distance and soon noticed we were approaching a dungeon portal. There were only about 15 or so people hanging around the portal not including the guards and side table workers, so it wasn't nearly as noisy as yesterday. As we approached the chatter died down turning to whispered gossip about my sorry state. Master Victor paid it no attention and walked straight up to the left side table employee. Now that i was closer and bothered to actually look at what was on the table i could see papers with names and signatures along with dates, times and payment details, there was also a computer and various other forms of technology; one looked similar to a matter converter, another a scanner of some sort, and the last one looked like a levitation style scale. 'The stalls must be where the dungeon roster and loot drops are processed', i guess mentally.

"I'd like to enter with my summon" Master Victor states pulling out a pouch of coins and an ID tag.

"Just the two of you?" the man asks concerned.

"Yes" was all Master Victor replied. The man hesitated glancing at me skeptically.

"You're going in solo?" Someone asks. I turn to see a tall man wearing all red armor, his hair was blond and his eyes were brown. He had a heavy sword sheathed on his back and a belt lined with potions. Four other people stood closely beside him, i assume they were his party members. One held a staff, he also wore glasses and brown speckled green clothes, i couldn't tell if it was cloth or leather. Another had two daggers tucked into her belt, a dark blue cloak covered her face and i could see long black hair that fell down just past her shoulders, the 3rd had a sword much like Master Victors' attached to his belt, his armor was simple, made of metal and painted bronze, the last two looked almost completely the same, both with red hair, freckles and pockets covering the majority of their clothes filled with what looked like potions, herbs and snacks, they both had backpacks and neither had weapons from what i could see, the only difference was one was male and the other was female.

"yes, why does it matter to you?" Master Victor spat. 'Why is he suddenly so hostile?' i wonder, was he not friendly to other humans like the elf?

"Hey man, i'm just trying to look out for you. This dungeon got reset recently and right now it's a rank D dungeon. and.." the man pauses to look my way "your summon looks pretty beat up" he finishes

"So what, you think i won't be able to handle it?" Master Victor growls

"If you can't and end up dying i'd feel stupidly guilty for not helping. Why don't you join our party for now so we can help you out" the man offers

"Piss off, feel guilty my ass. You're probably doing this just to increase your reputation" Master Victor snorts. 'Do they know each other? this sounds sort of personal' i wonder.

"Come on, i'm not that sort of person, just this time since i happened to be here, why don't you take the help i'm offering" the man says. I could hear people whispering to each other about the situation, most were cussing out Master Victor for being arrogant and ungrateful of the offer.

I lean in to whisper in Master Victors ear "I'm not sure what the dungeon rules are but for the sake of not ruining your own reputation shouldn't we just agree then split off from them once we actually get into the dungeon? plus if they're offering, won't they be paying?" i suggest

"What bullshit are you suggesting? agree to him and increase his reputation? that bastard is a fraud, he's shallow" he argues in a whisper

"Master, by simply suggesting to help he would have increased his reputation, you refusing his invitation isn't going to prevent something that already happened" i reply 'how is that not obvious, is he too angered to realize that? is he just acting out of spite now?' i wonder a little bewildered.

"Fine!" Master Victor shouts suddenly "I'll go with you then, just shut up about it already" Master Victor grumbles. The man at the desk that had been waiting writes down the new arrangements and shoos us out of line after being paid to attend to the next group waiting. We join the group and are greeted with introductions.

"Welcome to the party i guess, I'm Alena" the female red head chirps "this is my twin Alan" she nudges the almost identical male "we are both supports, that's Breea" she points to the cloaked woman "Assassin hybrid. James" she gestures to the staff holder "Earth Elemental Mage. Larry, but he prefers to be called Lenny" she pokes the bronze painted knight "tank type knight and our leader Malcom the fierce and merciful warrior" she finishes proudly gesturing to the man who had invited us to join.

"Fierce and merciful my ass, more like cowardly and toxic" Master victor mumbles to himself. since it didn't look like Master Victor planned to introduce us i decided to take the initiative

"Nice to meet you, i am the servant of Master Victor here" i glance towards Master giving him a pointed look "he gave me the name Aaron and from what i know he is warrior class" i introduce us.

"A warrior class?" Alena asks, everyone but Malcom seemed surprised

"Summoning artifact" was all Master Victor said in response. 'Are they that rare?' i wonder noticing how often people seemed to forget about summoning artifacts.

"so, how did you get all beat up?" Alena asks cheerily "I heard summoning artifacts produce summons even more powerful than the regular sort"

"I got interrogated by the public law and safety enforcement agency" i reply as we begin making our way towards the portal finally.

"They did THAT to you?" James asks horrified, he seemed like the timid type.

"Trust me, i look a lot better right now" i chuckle.

INFORMATION SECTION:

-AARON-

STATUS:

-Fullness - 23/100 (linked) -consuming human blood will increase the fullness

-HP- 49/100 -if the hp drops to 0, Aaron will become unconscious until all fatal wounds are healed with 'regeneration'. Once all wounds are healed, corruption will increase to 7/7

-Corruption - 5/7 -corruption will reset to 0/7 upon reaching 100/100 'fullness'. corruption will increase by 1 for every day Aaron is not at 100/100 fullness

TRAITS:

-ACTIVE-

-Coexistence (linked) -Aaron can transform into a human permanently until the transformation is canceled or until 'fullness' drops to 5/100. Must have at least 50% fullness to transform into a human. 5 fullness will be used

-Partial morph (linked) -while transformed into a human Aaron can reveal parts of it's true form at will. Re-morphing those parts into a humans' will use 1 fullness per major morph.

-Blood Consumption (linked) -Aaron can only consume blood. Human blood will increase the 'fullness', other types of blood will prolong the 'fullness' from reaching 0 for a maximum of 7 days.

-PASSIVE-

-Regeneration -All wounds small or large will heal. If Aaron consumes human blood, the healing speed will increase by 150% for 1 hour.

-Superiority -All biological traits are amplified supernaturally.

-Berserker -When corruption reaches 7/7 Aaron will go berserk. Can only be deactivated upon reaching 100/100 fullness. While berserk Aaron will not listen to any commands.

RESTRICTIONS:

Power limiter - 2.3%

XP - 0/100

Current quest: Rise from rubble - Increase your master's level to 50 and complete the tutorial.

SYSTEM TRAITS:

-Immortality -as a/an ??? entity the User will be protected from permanent death.

-Target translation -any words spoken by any entity directed towards the User or being listened to by the User will be translated for the User.

-User translation -the system will translate all spoken words used by the User to the native language of the targeted entity.