Chapter 3: First Blood
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Meanwhile somewhere else just before the Demigoddess of Ether woke up.

‘She’s so cute! Even if she’s not actually my child and looks like she came from that vixen incubus bastard, I just want to pamper her! Ah, she chose the forest start. Wait, forest start? Oh no!’

After some deep breaths and slowing down and thinking a bit, she continued.

‘Wait, what if I send her another message. Ah, what if I make her underage, so she gets dependent on me? I don’t want to lose her, after all. Ah, but I forgot to tell her about buying Clear-headed! Hopefully she will be able to deal with that vixen incubus of a nuisance for me.’

Before she can panic again though, she has a brilliant idea.

‘Ahh! No, wait I can just put in her Notes section. Pheww… Hmm, what’s this? Ah, she just destroyed the wrong adventure card, that’s fine. Alright, that was enough excitement for today. Let’s go back to regular work.’

On the flip-side, Aeliana is about to lose her composure because of Aetheria.

Divine Inspect: Aetheria

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Name: Aetheria
Title: Goddess of Ether
Race: Goddess
Domain: Ether
Gender: Female
Date of Origin: 0-0-0
Age: 20000

== Stats ==
Ability: 4 274 / 20 200
HP: 10 100 050 / 10 100 050
Ether: 4 077 430 000 / 4 080 400 000

== Traits ==
Mind +50; Intelligence +1000; Magic Null Immunity, Divine Language Comprehension, Immortality, Eternal Beauty, Fly, Dual-cast, Spell Haste III, Clear-headed

== Skills ==
Magic Manipulation IV; Magic Affinity IV, Magic Null Magic IV, Divine Inspect, Clairvoyance, Divine Message

== Notes ==
If you want something, shoot a [Message].

== Changelog ==
0-0-0 | [Aetheria] | Initial commit

 

10 MILLION HP? 4 BILLION ETHER? You also forgot to give me Message mom. Well, let’s see if I can buy that and Clear-headed then. I focus on the ability in my Inspect window which led me to a big list of abilities sorted by cost.

Apparently, both Message and Clear-headed costs 10 points. I also checked out what each does.

Divine Inspect: Message

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Send message to any user over any distance via the message system. Bigger distance and longer message results in more ether cost. 10 Ether for 1 du for 100 words.

If user is Demigod, Demigoddess, God, or Goddess automatically upgrades to [Divine Message].

 

Divine Inspect: Divine Message

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Same as [Message], but also allows attachments of items, traits, skills, quests, and whatever else it will support in the future. They’re also prioritised in delivery.

 

Divine Inspect: Clear-headed

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Increased resistance to all types of mind-altering effects.

 

Okay, both of these seem helpful, though who knows how attaching quests and such to messages will work with me as just only a demigoddess. Let’s buy those and then find a slime. I need to stand up, first. Whoa, my balance is off. I need to get used to being shorter, first.

Walking around the forest, I feel something sticky on my feet. Ah, a slime! Icky! I wail my legs around to shake it off, but looks like I flung it into the ground so hard, it seemed to live no more.

During this, I haven’t even noticed the two windows.

Battle Log

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Slime misses you.

Slime misses you.

Slime misses you.

Slime tackles you for 0 damage.

You notice the slime.

Activating Mage tutorial.

You kick slime for 80 damage.

You have slain the slime.

Quest: First Blood updated.

Title: [Slime-slayer] obtained.

Due to having multiple titles, Titles section have been unlocked.

 

Mage Tutorial

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There are two ways to cast a spell, manually or by using a macro. Using macros are also known as named spells. At level 1, you can only have 1 macro.

To cast a spell manually, you have to think and speak of the spell components through one-by-one. To cast a simple magic ball, use the following sequence: [Magic Begin] [Sphere] [On Update] [Move Forward 1] [Magic End].

To record it as a macro, replace [Magic Start] with [Magic Name] [Name of your spell]. To cast a macro spell, you can use [Name of your spell].

Finding the components, and figuring out the meaning behind the gibberish is to be Mage, adventurer. If you would already know them, you would be a god in this world.

 

Of course, magic had to be programming, just my luck. And it’s so mouthful! No wonder people create macros for this! You would need to be a rap god to use it otherwise! Still, it’s funny that I already meet half the requirements for being a god. I guess better to pretend I don’t know what they mean.

After being done with my slight amusement, I decided to start looking for a target practice, when I noticed a second slime going past me. They really blend in with the grass, no wonder this world is considered more difficult. Let’s see what was it… [Magic Start] [Sphere] [On Update] [Move Forward 1] [Magic End].

A white sphere, similar to a bullet in a bullet hell game, appeared and moved at a moderate speed. When making contact with the slime it disappears from existence and I was awarded with another pop-up for a battle log, confirming my second kill of a slime.

I should probably check the Ether cost of a spell, before I faint or something. [Divine Inspect] [Target: Self]

Divine Inspect: Aeliana

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Name: Aeliana
Title: Demigoddess of Ether
Race: Demigoddess (Half-Goddess, Quarter Foxkin, Quarter Fey)
Domain: Ether
Gender: Female
Date of Origin: 20000-05-20
Age: 0

== Stats ==
Ability: 20 / 80
HP: 40 050 / 40 050
Ether: 63 979 / 64 000

== Traits ==
Mind +50; Intelligence +50; Magic Null Immunity, Divine Language Comprehension

== Skills ==
Magic Manipulation I; Magic Affinity I, Magic Null Magic I; Divine Inspect; Divine Message; Clear-headed

== Quests ==
First Blood: Kill 2 / 10 slimes
Head to the Adventurer Guild (Ad-Hoc): Head to the Adventurer Guild, and get a Mage tutor.

== Titles ==
Demigoddess of Ether, Slime-slayer

== Notes ==

== Changelog ==
20000-05-20 | [Aeliana] | Removed note
20000-05-20 | [Aetheria] | Given name and added note
20000-05-20 | System | Initial commit

 

Not that much. A powerful, magical little girl using magic bullets to battle. This certainly sounds familiar. And I even get to name my attacks.

Re-wrote the title and synopsis to something less sloppy, let me know how you like them! Also, god was this a busy week. Even had a IRL meet-up with my FC mates for the first time. We went to bar that was like geek/nerd culture themed. There were themed cocktails as well. A health potion had an energy drink as base, so it tasted sweet, while a mana potion had a tonic as base, making it sour. I guess, I now know what these potions taste like.

 

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