Chapter 14: You're a Mythic Fae
Fae stared up at the sky with teary eyes. He felt as if he was being betrayed by the only thing he had left. His only friend, right here betraying him. 'He attacked me' 'He deserves this' Fae kept trying to convince himself his attacker deserved the fate that would soon befall him.
{Fae you-} "SHUT UP!" Fae cut the system off as it tried to speak to him. "I don't want to hear a word from you right now, you want to force my hand? Fine! I'll force you out of my mind." After Fae shouted out at the system he felt almost a disconnect. As if his connection with the system voice was suddenly cut.
Fae looked down at Billy staring him straight in his eyes, he had a saddened and pained look on his face but to Billy it seemed like the face of a mad man.
"I'm sorry sir, I promise I had no other choice." Fae said as he tried to fight back his tears and sound firm. If he was going to end this man's life the least he could do was seem resolute in his decision.
Fae conjured up all the force and courage he could muster, and with one last push he roared "DEVOUR!" as soon as the words left Fae's mouth he collapsed
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"Wakey wakey." Fae heard a voice call out to him as his eyes slowly opened. He was met with a pitch black room illuminated by seven bright lights in different colors spread throughout the room, with a final deep red light glowing brightly in front of Fae. Fae looked around the room in confusion "Who's there?" He called out, trying to find the voice he just heard. "Well act like I'm invisible why don't you." A voice called to Fae in a sarcastic tone leading his eyes to dart around the room looking for the source. Eventually his eyes fell on the deep red glowing light that was closest to him.
"Hello Fae." The flame said as it began to burn brighter. "My name is Crimson, nice to meet you." The flame called, it had a warm and friendly voice almost making you want to listen to its every word. "Where are we?" Fae asked confused. "In your mind, your subconscious, your dreams, whatever you want to call it." The flames form slowly began to change until it took the form of a fully grown man with the deep red flame covering it instead of normal skin. As Fae looked closer at Crimson he couldn't help but notice that he looked insanely similar to Fae, but a lot more rough and aged.
"So you've come across your first Bloodline Fae. I'm here to give you a few wise words." Crimson said as he sat down and patted the spot next to him signaling Fae to sit down beside him.
As Fae sat the area beside him Crimson began to speak. "You're a Mythic Fae." Crimson said bluntly. "I know you've spent your whole life being told otherwise, but you are." Crimson sat in silence giving Fae time to process his thoughts. "You're special Fae, the type of Mythic this world hasn't seen in millennia, the type of Mythic this world needs." Fae didn't know what to think as he heard all this, but he decided to stay quiet and listen.
"I wish I could tell you everything, I wish I could offer more help, but you aren't strong enough for that knowledge yet, continue to level up continue to train. Become as powerful as you can be, because trust me you're going to need it." Crimson said as he stood up and wore a serious expression. "Why? Why will I need it? What's going on? Please just answer me."
"All I can say is you have a power no one else holds, a power people will one day covet, for better or for worse Fae you WILL change the world." As Crimson said this he began to blink in and out of existence, along with him the rest of the colorful flames also began to slowly fade out. Crimson appeared one more time to say "Devour Fae, Devour anything that stands before you.
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Fae woke up with a jolt jumping up from the ground. At first his body was overcome with an intense and overbearing heat causing him to clench his stomach and hold his breath while trying not to vomit, soon the heat was replaced with a calming cold. Fae felt as if ice ran through his veins causing his very soul to shiver, eventually a small blue glow surrounded Fae's body, and as the glow faded he was met with a system message.
{Quest Complete: Devour the bloodline of your attacker}
{Rewards: +2 bloodline points}
{New 'Bloodlines' section unlocked in the system}
{Milestone: Collect 1 bloodline}
{Milestone Reward: +5 bloodline points}
As Fae looked at the system notification a smile swept across his face, but just as quickly as the smile appeared it vanished once he remembered what he had to do to get it. Fae had wished to have a bloodline his whole life, but once he finally got one he couldn't even truly enjoy the feeling. He felt as if it was corrupted and evil, as if HE was corrupted and evil.
As he looked around for his attackers body planning to give it a proper burial he realized it was no where to be scene. 'Where's the body' Fae thought to himself. {The body is absorbed along with the bloodline.} The systems voice rang into his head again causing Fae's mood to sour even further.
"Of course you give me more bad news." Fae said upset that he wouldn't even be able to bury the body for some peace. Fae decided to put the voice off and focus on his new gains. 'System Window' He thought to himself pulling up the system window. As he looked at it he found a new tab at the top entitled 'Bloodlines' as he clicked on it the tab expanded.
{Bloodlines: Devourer, Frost Warrior} Fae pressed on the Devourer bloodline and was met with a {System Error, cannot yet access this bloodline} Fae was disappointed but it was nothing he didn't expect from the system, he just hoped one day the system would tell him all he needed to know. He decided to click on the Frost Warrior causing more information to appear.
{Frost Warrior: Somewhere in a kingdom of ice there stands a queen, The Queen of Ice. She sits atop her mighty throne overlooking the kingdom with a cold glare. To protect her she has a royal guard, an elite group of knights, blessed with her control over ice to be her sword and shield, her frost warriors.}
{Grants the user slight control over ice, allowing the user to create swords and shields out of summoned ice.}
{Bloodline Purity: F}
Fae got a smile on his face as he read the bloodline information but his smile faded once he saw the purity rank. "I thought he had a high bloodline purity rank, how did I end up with an F?" Fae asked the system.
{At it's current level, Devour can only reduce a bloodline to its lowest state. You need to use the skill more to be able to retain higher purity.} Fae heard this and got a bit upset but decided to shake it off.
'At least I'll still be able to summon cool ice weapons' Fae thought to himself while staring at his hands, imagining the power within them. {Not necessarily, with the current purity level the most you can do is make things a bit colder by touch.}
"What." Fae got stoned faced as he heard this, any enjoyment he felt was immediately drained. He wished for a bloodline his whole life, and now that he had one this was all he got?
{Don't worry Fae, you have bloodline points you can use them to increase the purity level of bloodlines.} The system said trying to calm Fae. "Pour all my points into it, now." Fae demanded from the system, too much had been happening to him in such a short span of time, more and more he felt less grateful to the system and its abilities.
{Bloodline Purity: D} {{Bloodline Purity: D+} {Bloodline Purity: C-} {Bloodline Purity: C} {Bloodline Purity: C+} {Bloodline Purity: B-} As Fae watched the purity level go up he could feel ice in his veins grow and expand, becoming more and more powerful and pure. Fae only had enough bloodline points to get the bloodline to B- but he could absolutely feel the difference.
{Fae it's recommended you mediate to consolidate your base and breakthrough.} The system advised him.
As Fae sat down he took a meditative position and tried to cycle energy through his body. After about 3 minutes he quickly got the hang of it and he began to rapidly spread his energy throughout his body. After only 5 more minutes Fae's energy peaked and exploded, causing his eyes to open with a jolt. {Congratulations on becoming an official Human Rank 1 Mythic.} The system voiced. "Oh hell yea!" Fae screamed in excitement.
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Somewhere far away from Levings or any other place Fae ever heard about a man sat on what seemed to be a throne made from clouds. He wore a peaceful smile on his face as he stared down at a glorious city of gold with beautiful designs and glorious statues of him sprawled throughout.
Suddenly his peace was disturbed as a bright red beam of light shot up into the sky sending strong waves of wind and earthquakes throughout the city. As this was happening a man bursted into the throne room to speak to the man on the throne. "Paladus, it's not a drill, he's back." "You're kidding Orion, go back and check again." Paladus laughed from his throne. "I'm not kidding, the world eater has risen again." Orion said with a serious expression. Paladus's throne immediately broke as Paladus slammed his hand down on it. "Oh F%*K!"
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