I shake my head in disappoi. Predictable disappoi, but disappoi heless.
“Yazu was busy! And, and-” she stammers. “Yazu was not expeg you to level so fast. Yazu thought Yazu had plenty of time. Yazu does not think anyone prepares so far iure so quickly.”
I sigh. Then I g Mus. “Mus, how far is your pnning for your champion?”
“Um.” Her tail swishes left and right as her ears flicker atop her head. “I’ve already po level seventy-five.”
I raise an eyebrow at my goddess. Yazu's face is now flush red as she does everything to not look at me.
“Yazu would like tue that Mus is not normal.”
“Uh-huh. Right. Have you at least prepared anything?”
She immediately perks up to my question. “Yes.”
She extends her hand with palm up for a moment. Then, out of seemingly nowhere, a bowl filled with folded papers appears.
I pinch the bridge of my nose. Not so much that I’m upset, but that I’m delegated to quirks of fate. Granted, said fate is heavily skewed toward my be on at of Yazu being a goddess of luck. But still, luly goes so far.
I sigh as I stare at the bowl. “Alrighty then. How do my css choices work?”
Yazu smiles happily. She closes her eyes and then reaches inside. While her eyes are closed, her hand swishes the pieces of paper around. Then she grabs three and pulls them out.
The moment she does, a s appears in my vision.
…Level 25 has been achieved.
…Unlog Css upgrade.
…Three css upgrades are avaible.
Please choose one of the following csses:
[Rapid Shifter]
Increase Max number of souls by 4
[Shift] ability cooldown is reduced by 95%
[Shift] ability cost is reduced by 20% maximum mana and an additional 5% per soul acquired.
[Numerous Shifter]
Increase max number of souls by 4
Max soul t is increased by 300%
All shift fain 5% improved traits per soul acquired.
[Armament Shifter]
Increase Max number of souls by 4
Items equipped are pced in stasis up to 10% of form weight.
Increase weight threshold by 5% per soul acquired.
Reading through each css, I ’t help but find them following something of a three part diagram.
First, my main css ability where I gain souls and transform into beasts that I have souls for is improved in the number of souls.
Sed, the unique css ges are added, all of which improve my [Shift] skill.
Third, the unique css ges gain the ability to scale in regards to the number of souls. Su ability allows growth over a course of time.
After thhly reading and cheg each css, I look at Yazu. The goddess is standing silently and expetly with what looks like a dumb grin on her face.
“Yazu, what happens after I y new css?” I ask.
The bowl in her hand disappears and is repced with another one. “Yazu will give a blessing.”
“Right. Am I allowed a choice?”
She shakes her head. “Yazu must choose.” She wiggles the bowl in front of me. “Yazu will find the best blessing.”
“Do I get any say over what you choose?”I ask.
She pouts. “Yazu try to find something specific, but Yazu believes luck is better.”
Holy, she’s n. The mimicus blessing gave me the ability to unicate vocally. Also, I don’t think her judgment will be very good. Far better to leave it to luck.
“Alright, we’ll go the luck method. But first, let me choose a css.”
I return my attention to the s and begin pting my choices.
Let's see. [Rapid Shifter] promotes the ability to rapidly ge forms. sidering there is a good half minute before I transform back, a 95% redu of such a cooldown would allow me to transform every sed and a half. On top of that, my transformation cost could bee free in the long run. The only problem with the [Rapid Shifter] css is that my base form is probably far superior to anything I could reasonably transform into. Maybe I’d find something iure, but until then, I’d have a thhly weakened css until then.
[Numerous Shifter] oher hand has something of a simir problem. The css allows me to get a rge number of transformations, whi theory would allow me to have a transformation ready to deal with various circumstances. Unfortunately, my base form is as a Fenrimorph, which is not sidered a shift form. This means that 5% per soul boosts would not improve my traits as a Fenrimorph.
Uhe other two, [Armament Shifter] seems to be a better option, but also a riskier one. Having the ability to keep equipment equipped on my person is a boon. In the short term, It will allow me to always have my gaus equipped. But in the long term, I imagine a full suit of armor.
“I’m going to choose [Armament Shifter].”
The moment the words leave my lips, I am met with an onsught of ss.
Css: [Armament Shifter] has been chosen.
Installing [Armament] Specialization to [Shifter]...
Instaltion plete.
[Armament Shifter] Css level 25
You are a man who is ected to the material and immaterial pne. You are capable of abs the souls of those freely given and then transf into the species the soul is of.
Your stasis is capable of carrying equipped items up to 10% + 5%(2) of total weight.
2/6 Souls
I read the description and nod to the ges.
“Alright, is the blessing. Go ahead Yazu.”
Yazu un-summons the st tainer and then summons another filled with even more pieces of paper.
“Yazu will choose the best blessing.” Once again, she closes her eyes and reaches inside. She grabs a piece of paper and pulls it out. Then a s hits me.
Initiating sed blessing from entity Yazu…
Blessing Loaded: Adding Baby Undammota soul to shifter css…
Baby Undammota (Soul)
Monoculus are the rarest bird species in all of Tristique. They have the unique ability to sense all forms of seismiergy waves around them.
I read and reread it for several long seds. My first instinct is to be upset. In my head, I hope for something iing or immediately useful. But, I get a bird transformation. Grahe description sounds fand all, what with the seismiergy sense, but I doubt it will be of great help.
I guess the ability to turn into something that could fly is useful.
“Is something wrong?” Mus interrupts my thoughts. The diminutive goddess, somehow even shorter than Yazu, is looking at me with .
“No. I’m just trying to figure out my blessing based solely on the description. I’m going to have to test it when I’m done here.”
“Yazu believes her choice is the best choice.”
Mus ignores Yazu. The goddess of magic just tiaring at me for long moments. “You are displeased.” She finally says. “You wish for less chaos in your choices.”
I frown at her words. Goddesses of magic are generally intelligent. Well, most gods are intelligent. But gods of magic are exceptionally so. Such a thing tends to e at a tradeoff. Fic, that is generally in wisdom. Reading and prehendiions is generally what such gods struggle with.
I guess a Goddess of Nature Magic is a bit of a different breed.
“It would be nice, but I wouldn’t trust Yazu to choose properly-”
“HEY!”
“-without using her skill.”
She tilts her head. “Luck run out.”
I shrug. “It , absolutely. But it hasn’t yet, so I’ll deal with it if it es. Anyways, do I get anything else? Or are we done here?”
Yazu opens her mouth to speak, but my answer is immediately answered by a portal openio her.
All I hear is a surprised squeal as her body is sued through.
Me and Mus just stare surprised while the portal closes.
Ohe portal is closed, Green verges ie the same location.
The floating eyeball blinks at me, and then blinks at Mus.
“Error. Unauthorized Diviy Present. Purging diviy.”
I hear Mus squeal as another portal appears and sus the women through the same way as Yazu.
Once she is gone, Green turns to me.
“You have gained a single level. You have 11 attributes avaible.”
Eleven?
“Show me my full traits.”
“Aowledged.”
Traits.
Human Average
Individual Base Calcutions.
Level modifications
Trait Actual Value
Strength
10
41
+33%
54
Endurance
9
46
+0%
46
Vitality
12
0.27%M/R/M
28
0.63% M/R/M
+0%
+9.31%
28
9.94% M/R/M
Perception
9
29
+0%
29
Intelligence
11
16
+0%
16
Mana
388.8
510
+0%
510
trol
12
10
+0%
10
Attributes Avaible/Attributes total:
11
44
Level:
25
Titles Obtained: 3
Title Name
Leviathan Syer
Title Rank
Legendary
Title Effect
+10 Attribute points
Title Name
Underdog Boarder
Title Rank
Rare
Title Effect
[Captain’s Authority] stat decay is slowed when b enemy vessels.
Title Name
Mana Fur
Title Rank
Divine
Title Effect
Increase Mana Regeion by fur density.
Current Bonus: +9.31% M/RM
“Why do I have eleven attribute points? Shouldn’t I only have one?”
“That information is restricted.”
I sigh. “Of course it is. I’ll have to ask Myers. For now, what should I do.”
I tap my as I stare at my traits.
I could tio add points intth. Myers mentions that strength is capped at twice the endurance, and my endurance is very high. So I still have a det way to go. Alternatively, I increase endurance, which would give me the highest stat gain. But, I doubt endurance would be a good idea. Doubling or tripling my resilience will make me more durable, but nowhere near durable enough to ignore a runed sword.
“Lets just keep putting my points intth and that will be it.”
“Aowledged.”
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One moment I was staring at green, and the , I’m sticky, wet, warm, and surrounded by gore.
The fuck am I?
Moving about, I feel meat shift easily against my muscles. I stand and move, ripping sinew and ans apart. Eventually, I feel a hard exterior. Toug the exterior, my memories flood bato me at the feel of the chitin.
Right. I went ihe matriarch as a cat, transformed back. And then I had a feeding frenzy before passing out.
Finally mentally caught up, I tinue slig and dig through innards until I find an opening. Squeezing myself out, I am met with bzing sunlight.
Wary, I gnce around in case there are more scorpions, but there are he tower is firmly nearby and is probably keeping the other scorpions from approag.
Now then, it should be somewhere, probably by the tail end.
I walk to the behind of the scorpion and thehe area. After a good five minutes and a bit of digging, my search bares fruit. I grab my gaus and quickly put them on. A more difficult prospe at of my rger haually, I get it done.
Ohey are firmly in pce, I return to the matriarch corpse. The corpse doesn't look much like a corpse other than the bloody hole behind it. The carapace is doing a fine job of keeping the internals from just gushing out into the sand.
Climbing on its back, I walk to the ter where the key is embedded. I kneel down to pull the key out, only to find that the thing is firmly in pce.
Raising my arms, I push my weight into my punch. Armored fist meets carapace, and carapace barely loses. A tiny cras from where I struck.
Thank god I didn’t try to break through its armor.
Raising my fist, I tinue my onsught, creating more and more cracks until the carapace shatters. With the carapace broken, It was easy to retrieve the key.
I raise it up to the sunlight.
The key is bck like obsidian, but also shinier. It also feels very sturdy.
With the key in hand, I make my way to the tower entrance. I ihe key and turn. I hear a click.
The door opens on its own.
