@Double also worth noting that the Earth Dragon Balls can only bring someone back to life once. Which was why Yamcha dying to the Saibaman was such a big deal because he had already died once and couldn't be resurrected a second time.
Actually, that might have been the whole reason they went to Namek in the first place? Since their Dragon Balls were stronger and could be used to resurrect people multiple times? I don't know, it's been a while.
He was stuck. It felt almost like a dream, except for the fact that he was aware that it wasn’t real. As soon as he had selected his ‘evolution’ he was struck by this sense of weightlessness and almost… etherealness. He had passed out, his body collapsing to the ground and instinctively curling up into a foetal position as his wings cocooned themselves around him; he knew this because he could see it happening from outside of himself.
Before he had any time to ponder the reality of this out of body experience he had begun to rise upward, floating higher and higher away from his body and the cave floor. As he ascended it was like his senses expanded, his awareness of the world growing beyond what he should have been capable of, seeing things from far away or even seeing through the cave to the world outside; it felt like he would keep rising, keep expanding his range of vision until he could see the whole world at once, keep rising until he reached… something high up above.
But then he stopped.
He remained in the cave. He did not rise any further, but he also did not fall; he merely stopped and was struck by the sensation of being held in place by something. And then the world turned red.
Oberon’s vision was drawn to a cave. Inside that cave was a group of familiar figures of various shapes and sizes. This group was gathered around a crystal and that crystal was behaving very strangely.
The green Wizard Slime was reaching out for the crystal and the crystal in turn was reaching out to him, growing more than moving in his direction and extending long thorns that were strangely, geometrically, perfectly straight. It reminded Oberon of the lines on a circuit board or really of any time some work of fiction wanted to depict something as technological, or at least non-biological; nature rarely produced such perfectly straight lines after all. Despite being so far away with this peculiar, all-seeing vision Oberon could see the happenings going on in the cave as if he was standing right next to them. He tried to activate Magic Analysis on the crystal, but who knew if he even had access to his usual abilities in this form.
A system message, combined with a voice in his head interrupted his examination of the crystal. At first the voice was unfamiliar and somewhat robotic; it sounded vaguely like an error message he would expect to see at work, in his old life. Then the voice was replaced by one a lot more… human was probably the wrong word, given who it was, but alive at least. The words in the message and the words being spoken were perfectly understandable yet at the same time they seemed distorted or corrupted somehow and filled his head with static. The Demon King sounded curious, surprised, maybe even a little approving; it seemed they were progressing faster than he had expected.
The message ended and Oberon’s awareness of the cave returned. At some point he’d turned away from the cave and was looking down at his body, at the corpse of Rattleskull and at Mourningstar, who was now alone. In the distance, approaching Mourningstar and his helpless body, was a group of Goblins led by the one who had escaped from the bonfire earlier; the one who had tried to cast a fire spell.
Oberon used, or at least attempted to use, Magic Analysis on the approaching Goblins and their leader in particular. He turned back to the Wisp below and tried to call out, to warn her of the enemies approaching. Hopefully he would wake up before they arrived, or else he might get to experience his own death from a third person perspective.
Used "Magic Analysis III" on Dungeon Core and Jason Used "Magic Analysis III" on Crispy and the approaching Goblins Attempt to communicate from the other side
Stepping out of his circle Rider approached Anderson and the others, moving away from his Master. Dieter took a hesitant step forward as if to stop his Servant, only to falter when he saw the purposeful stride the Greek warrior moved with. Stopping in front of the man sent by the church, Rider let his spear rest in the crook of his shoulder and removed his helmet, revealing a stern if youthful face; hard eyes swept over them all, pausing longer on Saber, before stopping on Anderson.
“If you think we need a leader and if no one else is willing to step forward then I will. However a self-appointed leader, one who has not earned the respect and loyalty of those who are to follow him, is no leader at all; an arrangement of that kind will only lead to discord and dissention among our faction and I have seen first-hand the kind of damage that can cause. The decision of who should lead us in this war should be left until all parties are gathered together and should be conducted fairly.”
@King Cosmos: The same here, I've been trying to make sure I get people beforehand but I just need to fill that last slot. ^^; As for openings, if I'm not mistaken it's only Rider that's open anyway.
I can work with that. I have a Rider I can use that just needs a little bit of work.
@VitaVitaAR I'm somewhat interested, but honestly my involvement would probably depend on what class was left at the end. I have ideas for most but I would probably struggle more with Archer, Caster and Assassin.
I'm not worried about that specific thing just yet if the group wants I'll edit my post, have Orson tell everyone they can figure that out later, and have King ship us to Poland.
I've been meaning to post, I've just been a little too dead on my feet the past couple days to concentrate.
I could have Rider put himself forward as leader, which would be a natural response to the question of leadership, and you could have someone respond with something to the effect of "lets not make those kind of decisions until we've met the other two pairs" and move us along to Poland.
That would at least get us out of this scene and closer to the action.
It seemed that all the effort Oberon had put into Magic Analysis was paying dividends as he was bombarded with more information than he knew what to do with, so much so that it gave him a bit of a headache as the new knowledge was forced into his brain.
The description of Fireball was simple, exceedingly so; 'a ball of fire conjured in a similar manner to a Mana Orb' was something he had already guessed himself, but the real advantage of using Magic Analysis was knowing what the fire-element mana looked like, what it felt like to his senses. Maybe he had enough information to recreate it now; he'd have to check later, once he was done teaching this Wisp some things.
The descriptions of Lesser Force and Meditation were a bit more promising, not to mention encouraging; grappling an opponent was exactly what he wanted to use Lesser Force for, though not directly if he could help it, and Meditation was a skill that he had already made some progress towards.
Before he could do anything else however, he was alerted to the fact that he had leveled up again following the battle with Rattleskull. He was level 5 now, with an excess of skill points to spend and a multitude of skills to use them on. His current skills were fine as they were, since every one of them was something he could actively practice if need be; his real interest was in his incomplete skills. Minor Regeneration was advancing, though not as quickly as he would have liked, he'd gained some experience towards Charisma somehow and Keen Sight was an interesting addition.
This was something he'd been thinking about this for a while now, in the back of his mind; how could he best spend his skill points? Spending them on any active skill seemed like a waste when he could gain experience through simple practice; it might take a while but it would save on a limited resource. It was better, in his mind, to save his skill points to spend on skills that he could not so easily train, such as passive abilities; Faster, Alert, Keen Sight and a few others were skills that he had no idea how to improve and likely wouldn't be complete for a while. He could also save his points for emergencies, only using them when he needed a new ability immediately like he had with Lesser Status Heal.
For the moment he would take a hybrid approach of the latter two options and spend some of his points on a potentially useful skill and save a few for an emergency. However, that wasn't the only thing that leveling up had brought him; there were evolution options as well. Thinking back to the green Slime with the conical-shaped protrusion and the rocky growth, Oberon began to understand that it must have been an evolved version of the basic Slime.
The options presented to him were... interesting, to say the least. An adult Pixie was expected he supposed, but the other three? Imp and Sprite seemed about as disparate creatures as he could imagine at this level and Hipixie was something he had never even heard of before. They all looked tempting for different reasons, whether that be increased power and the admittedly interesting 'demon affinity', increased mana capacity and the just as interesting 'light affinity' or the ability to use light equipment. Which was the better option right now?
Or maybe... should he be thinking so short term? What was best right now might limit him in the future; the creature he chose as his starting class undoubtedly affected his evolution options right now, so whatever option he picked would determine his path for the rest of this life, at least to some extent. He shouldn't just be looking at the first step, but the whole journey that lay beyond.
So which paths were presented to him? The Imp? It was a demonic creature, a lesser fiend of some kind, so it would probably open up the path towards stronger demons and other hellish creatures; while he could certainly see himself becoming very powerful if he took that route, did he really want to become a demon of all things in this new life? The answer to that was simple.
And what about the Hipixie? It was a Fey creature, the first "True Fey" according to this. That meant nature spirits, druid-like abilities and later on... what exactly? It was a path that Oberon couldn't see very far down honestly, not to mention the fact that he didn't like the idea of giving up the ability to fly and he couldn't see much immediate need for light equipment.
That left the Sprite and it's 'Light Affinity'. In Oberon's mind that meant divine magic and the beginning of the path towards the celestial realm; angels could be just as strong as demons after all, and the transformation was a lot less morally dubious. In addition, the extra mana was an attractive prospect as were the bonuses to his healing abilities.
Turning to Danny and Ardur, Oberon excused himself before walking a few feet away from the group. "Sorry, can you excuse me a moment. I need to deal with something." Once somewhat alone he carefully read through his options before making his choice. "8 points into Alert and... I'll choose Sprite."
Spent 8 skill points on "Alert" Chose the "Sprite" evolution option
@vancexentan no, that's fine. Rider will put himself forward in my next post, which I should probably write soon, and whatever happens from there, happens.
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