Mila
Mila had been quite lucky when it came to taking over the identity of Sarra Lin’Talic, one of 398 different female descendants of Epecteos older than 17 and under the age of 30.
First, the woman had been training up to be a lawyer, so, if she had managed to advance to F rank, the class she would have been aiming for was one Mila could quite easily fake. Second, Epecteos was her only living relative, the rest of her family having died of old age or from a major factional war which had taken place in the city where she’d grown up, easily allowing Mila to fake having a bloodline awakening. Finally, third and most important, she had a Rare grade race from birth, something extremely uncommon among Epecteos’s descendants, and there was an easy story for having her race advance to Epic grade at F rank.
Either her family or one of two others had gotten their hands on a powerful treasure which would allow for a massive boost in the Soul stat upon its energy being absorbed, but someone had stolen it and fled into the wilderness on the mostly uninhabited planet of Torem, probably to try and absorb it himself.
Who this person was, Mila couldn’t be sure. What she could confirm, however, as she and Epecteos had found all the bodies, was that the children of the three families involved had all been sent to Torem to hunt monsters for their F rank race advancements, likely as an excuse for the forces of their families to come with and secretly hunt for the thief. And she could also confirm how powerful the treasure was, as they’d found it in one of the spatial storage rings on one of the corpses.
From what Epecteos had been able to discover from the three year old remains in the forest, one of the families had likely found the thief and killed him, but then all three families, which weren’t that large, had fought and mostly killed each other, the monsters on the planet killing everyone who managed to survive.
Sarra Lin’Talic seemed to have died very early on in the fighting, but the story Mila and Epecteos were going with was that she was almost killed, but awakening the Law Egg of Cells had allowed her to save her own life. She’d then recovered the treasure from the corpse of her father, who’d been holding it, and used it on herself over the next month or so, helping to awaken the hidden bloodline of a Succubus Empress hidden in her soul and to maximize her soul stat.
Lost in the woods of Torem and not knowing how to get back to the teleportation platform, she then had to survive by herself on the planet filled with monsters for three years until she was rescued by her great-grandfather who happened to visit the planet during that time, Epecteos having been checking in on all his descendants over the last several months, mostly out of boredom.
During that time, she’d advanced her race to Epic grade and taken the Uncommon grade Lawyer class she’d always wanted, at the time not realizing she’d be stuck for so long in the wilderness. Then, having to survive by herself all alone for three years, she’d managed to raise both her original Law Egg of Bonds and her new Law Egg of Cells into Law Larvae through her trials and tribulations while hunting for food and levels as an F rank.
The story was actually pretty believable, as the treasure involved was in truth quite amazing, helping Diana raise her Soul stat by over 1,000 points over a couple weeks, and even the least believable part of the story, the rapid increase in Law comprehension, wasn’t that difficult to believe once anyone realized Sarra Lin’Talic’s original race had been Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid, a race which provided excellent affinity for life element Laws, something the race she’d advanced to, the Epic grade Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid, did even better.
Altogether, Mila and Epecteos had managed to make an identity which was quite a bit more talented than they had originally intended while keeping the backstory believable at the same time, Mila’s fictional status ending up quite impressive.
Name: Sarra Lin’Talic
Level: 33
Race: Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid (F-Epic)
Bloodline: Succubus Empress (Heroic)
Abilities
Iron Mind (Rare)
Amber Soul (Epic)
Soul Eater (Legendary)
Class: Lawyer (F-Uncommon)
Skills
Contract (F-Uncommon) 93% mastered
Concentration (F-Uncommon) 100% mastered
Heightened Hearing (F-Uncommon) 100% mastered
Contract Enhancement (F-Uncommon) 87% mastered
Quick Step (F-Uncommon) 25% mastered
Triforce Healing (F-Uncommon) 22% mastered
Laws
Law Larvae:
Bonds- Early
Cells - Early
Stats
Strength: 436 (+0%)
Agility: 436 (+0%)
Endurance: 501 (+0%)
Toughness: 468 (+0%)
Vitality: 731 (+0%)
Perception: 469 (+0%)
Magic: 469 (+0%)
Spirit: 634 (+6.25%)
Soul: 2147 (+37.5%)
Aura: 34 (+100%)
Attunement: 27 (+0%)
Luck: 27 (+0%)
Free Stats: 0
Soulstructures:
Lower Dantian: 1 Huge Core Container
Middle Dantian: 12 Medium + 1 Large Mana Wells
Upper Dantian: 1 Huge Mental Forge
Uniqueness:
Aura Lady
She and Nana Xara had discussed for a couple hours the costs and benefits of allowing her fictional identity to share one or both of her uniquenesses, and neither of them thought it a good idea to advertise her uniquenesses’ secondary effects. But, at the end of the day, doubled Perception was quite easy to hide while doubled Aura was not, so she did include Aura Lady, the uniqueness which would provide the same increase to Aura as her Shadow Princess uniqueness, but without giving a reason for gods to hunt her down.
Then, for her soulstructures, she didn’t change anything other than hiding the effects of Advanced Multi-Mind as explaining how she had the skill would be incredibly problematic. For her other soulstructures, hiding the amount of her resources would be difficult, but it would be much easier for her Mental Forges, given her stated skills used less psyforce than qi and mana, so it would never be the bottleneck.
Her bloodline then would account for her always eating souls, while its awakening also allowed her to look quite a bit different than the original Sarra Lin’Talic, letting her keep more of her actual appearance.
Succubus Empress (Heroic)
Soul stirring beauty with control over men
Effects:
Increase Soul stat effectiveness by 25%
Your aura has a passive lust inducing effect
Spirit +3 per level, Scalable
Soul +9 per level, Scalable
Along with her fake race, her bloodline helped turn her into a real talent.
Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid (F-Epic)
A Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid heavily influenced by a soul-based bloodline
Racial Abilities: 3
No limits, but a higher chance for life element and soul stat related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 2592
Agility: 2592
Endurance: 2808
Toughness: 2592
Vitality: 3456
Perception: 2880
Magic: 2880
Spirit: 3168
Soul: 4536
Aura: 2880
Attunement: 2880
Luck: 3024
Stat Growth Per Level:
Strength: 5
Agility: 5
Endurance: 6
Toughness: 5
Vitality: 10
Perception: 6
Magic: 6
Spirit: 8
Soul: 12
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Advancement Criteria:
Kill and absorb the primal energy of 3 beast category E rank monsters while in forest terrain
Requirements:
Current race is Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid (G-Rare), has a Legendary grade or higher soul-based bloodline, has maximized soul stat
And, together, they gave her some impressive yet easy to fake racial abilities.
Iron Mind (Rare): Increase the effectiveness of the Spirit stat by 6.25%.
Amber Soul (Epic): Increase the effectiveness of the Soul stat by 12.5%.
Soul Eater (Legendary): You can eat souls for sustenance and, by eating high quality souls, your Soul stat will grow
Iron Mind, inherited from Epecteos, and the Rare grade version of the ability which came before Amber Soul, Copper Soul, were both racial abilities held by the original Sarra Lin’Talic, and maximizing the Soul stat, a requirement for the fake racial advancement, would also unlock upgrading Copper Soul to Amber Soul, so they made perfect sense for her backstory.
Soul Eater, however, a very rare ability which could be unlocked by the Succubus Empress bloodline, was the true key to her disguise as it meant there was no reason for her to not eat souls over normal food. And, in the Violet Mountain Sect, where there were no moral compunctions about such a thing, the only issue would be if her racial ability wasn’t widely known, but that was solved by Epecteos’s actions with the rude emissary from the Hewin Kingdom making her racial ability something that would definitely be talked about.
Finally, her class would hopefully give her an interesting role in the Violet Mountain Sect.
Lawyer (F-Uncommon)
You wield the power of contracts
Effects:
Slightly increase the power of contract category skills.
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
Offensive
Crafting
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 7
Agility: 7
Endurance: 7
Toughness: 7
Vitality: 7
Perception: 7
Magic: 7
Spirit: 7
Soul: 34
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
The Contract (G-Common) skill, Soul greater than 12
Given the main C rank who controlled most of the Violet Mountain Sect’s contracts was in his twilight years, the sect needed to raise a replacement, but the replacement they were currently raising, the granddaughter of King Hewin, had entered into a bottleneck for the last hundred and fifty years, so it was questionable if she would even be able to make it to D rank, let alone C.
King Hewin also had a couple rivals within the Violet Mountain Sect’s elders who very much didn’t want his granddaughter to succeed, at least from the reports Epecteos managed to buy when visiting one of the Carium Galaxy Cluster’s three C rank planets the month before. So Mila’s hope was that they would desire to help raise her as an alternative if she entered the sect, especially given her great-grandfather’s obvious enmity with King Hewin, thus the main reason for Epecteos to kill the Hewin Kingdom’s emissary.
According to Nana Xara, who knew a lot more about the types of politics which would go on among cultivators with ridiculously long lifespans, this was the best route to getting a copy of the Twelve Element Primal Code sent to Epecteos, as old powerhouses were generally quite petty and would thus be much more likely to give something like the copy of a cultivation technique, which cost them nothing, to the enemy of a rival than to a promising subordinate to give to their family member, the two combined making it very likely Aalam would be able to get the cultivation technique within their three year time limit.
Mila then took a deep breath, it finally her turn to fight a monster, and bowed to the crowd, Epecteos’s box especially. Then she summoned a spear from her spatial storage ring and stepped forward to face the relatively weak E rank monster, the defeat of which would represent being able to fight at the seven marks level.
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Mila
Mila had been quite lucky when it came to taking over the identity of Sarra Lin’Talic, one of 398 different female descendants of Epecteos older than 17 and under the age of 30.
First, the woman had been training up to be a lawyer, so, if she had managed to advance to F rank, the class she would have been aiming for was one Mila could quite easily fake. Second, Epecteos was her only living relative, the rest of her family having died of old age or from a major factional war which had taken place in the city where she’d grown up, easily allowing Mila to fake having a bloodline awakening. Finally, third and most important, she had a Rare grade race from birth, something extremely uncommon among Epecteos’s descendants, and there was an easy story for having her race advance to Epic grade at F rank.
Either her family or one of two others had gotten their hands on a powerful treasure which would allow for a massive boost in the Soul stat upon its energy being absorbed, but someone had stolen it and fled into the wilderness on the mostly uninhabited planet of Torem, probably to try and absorb it himself.
Who this person was, Mila couldn’t be sure. What she could confirm, however, as she and Epecteos had found all the bodies, was that the children of the three families involved had all been sent to Torem to hunt monsters for their F rank race advancements, likely as an excuse for the forces of their families to come with and secretly hunt for the thief. And she could also confirm how powerful the treasure was, as they’d found it in one of the spatial storage rings on one of the corpses.
From what Epecteos had been able to discover from the three year old remains in the forest, one of the families had likely found the thief and killed him, but then all three families, which weren’t that large, had fought and mostly killed each other, the monsters on the planet killing everyone who managed to survive.
Sarra Lin’Talic seemed to have died very early on in the fighting, but the story Mila and Epecteos were going with was that she was almost killed, but awakening the Law Egg of Cells had allowed her to save her own life. She’d then recovered the treasure from the corpse of her father, who’d been holding it, and used it on herself over the next month or so, helping to awaken the hidden bloodline of a Succubus Empress hidden in her soul and to maximize her soul stat.
Lost in the woods of Torem and not knowing how to get back to the teleportation platform, she then had to survive by herself on the planet filled with monsters for three years until she was rescued by her great-grandfather who happened to visit the planet during that time, Epecteos having been checking in on all his descendants over the last several months, mostly out of boredom.
During that time, she’d advanced her race to Epic grade and taken the Uncommon grade Lawyer class she’d always wanted, at the time not realizing she’d be stuck for so long in the wilderness. Then, having to survive by herself all alone for three years, she’d managed to raise both her original Law Egg of Bonds and her new Law Egg of Cells into Law Larvae through her trials and tribulations while hunting for food and levels as an F rank.
The story was actually pretty believable, as the treasure involved was in truth quite amazing, helping Diana raise her Soul stat by over 1,000 points over a couple weeks, and even the least believable part of the story, the rapid increase in Law comprehension, wasn’t that difficult to believe once anyone realized Sarra Lin’Talic’s original race had been Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid, a race which provided excellent affinity for life element Laws, something the race she’d advanced to, the Epic grade Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid, did even better.
Altogether, Mila and Epecteos had managed to make an identity which was quite a bit more talented than they had originally intended while keeping the backstory believable at the same time, Mila’s fictional status ending up quite impressive.
Name: Sarra Lin’Talic
Level: 33
Race: Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid (F-Epic)
Bloodline: Succubus Empress (Heroic)
Abilities
Iron Mind (Rare)
Amber Soul (Epic)
Soul Eater (Legendary)
Class: Lawyer (F-Uncommon)
Skills
Contract (F-Uncommon) 93% mastered
Concentration (F-Uncommon) 100% mastered
Heightened Hearing (F-Uncommon) 100% mastered
Contract Enhancement (F-Uncommon) 87% mastered
Quick Step (F-Uncommon) 25% mastered
Triforce Healing (F-Uncommon) 22% mastered
Laws
Law Larvae:
Bonds- Early
Cells - Early
Stats
Strength: 436 (+0%)
Agility: 436 (+0%)
Endurance: 501 (+0%)
Toughness: 468 (+0%)
Vitality: 731 (+0%)
Perception: 469 (+0%)
Magic: 469 (+0%)
Spirit: 634 (+6.25%)
Soul: 2147 (+37.5%)
Aura: 34 (+100%)
Attunement: 27 (+0%)
Luck: 27 (+0%)
Free Stats: 0
Soulstructures:
Lower Dantian: 1 Huge Core Container
Middle Dantian: 12 Medium + 1 Large Mana Wells
Upper Dantian: 1 Huge Mental Forge
Uniqueness:
Aura Lady
She and Nana Xara had discussed for a couple hours the costs and benefits of allowing her fictional identity to share one or both of her uniquenesses, and neither of them thought it a good idea to advertise her uniquenesses’ secondary effects. But, at the end of the day, doubled Perception was quite easy to hide while doubled Aura was not, so she did include Aura Lady, the uniqueness which would provide the same increase to Aura as her Shadow Princess uniqueness, but without giving a reason for gods to hunt her down.
Then, for her soulstructures, she didn’t change anything other than hiding the effects of Advanced Multi-Mind as explaining how she had the skill would be incredibly problematic. For her other soulstructures, hiding the amount of her resources would be difficult, but it would be much easier for her Mental Forges, given her stated skills used less psyforce than qi and mana, so it would never be the bottleneck.
Her bloodline then would account for her always eating souls, while its awakening also allowed her to look quite a bit different than the original Sarra Lin’Talic, letting her keep more of her actual appearance.
Succubus Empress (Heroic)
Soul stirring beauty with control over men
Effects:
Increase Soul stat effectiveness by 25%
Your aura has a passive lust inducing effect
Spirit +3 per level, Scalable
Soul +9 per level, Scalable
Along with her fake race, her bloodline helped turn her into a real talent.
Forest Soul Human-Jinn Hybrid (F-Epic)
A Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid heavily influenced by a soul-based bloodline
Racial Abilities: 3
No limits, but a higher chance for life element and soul stat related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 2592
Agility: 2592
Endurance: 2808
Toughness: 2592
Vitality: 3456
Perception: 2880
Magic: 2880
Spirit: 3168
Soul: 4536
Aura: 2880
Attunement: 2880
Luck: 3024
Stat Growth Per Level:
Strength: 5
Agility: 5
Endurance: 6
Toughness: 5
Vitality: 10
Perception: 6
Magic: 6
Spirit: 8
Soul: 12
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Advancement Criteria:
Kill and absorb the primal energy of 3 beast category E rank monsters while in forest terrain
Requirements:
Current race is Forest Human-Jinn Hybrid (G-Rare), has a Legendary grade or higher soul-based bloodline, has maximized soul stat
And, together, they gave her some impressive yet easy to fake racial abilities.
Iron Mind (Rare): Increase the effectiveness of the Spirit stat by 6.25%.
Amber Soul (Epic): Increase the effectiveness of the Soul stat by 12.5%.
Soul Eater (Legendary): You can eat souls for sustenance and, by eating high quality souls, your Soul stat will grow
Iron Mind, inherited from Epecteos, and the Rare grade version of the ability which came before Amber Soul, Copper Soul, were both racial abilities held by the original Sarra Lin’Talic, and maximizing the Soul stat, a requirement for the fake racial advancement, would also unlock upgrading Copper Soul to Amber Soul, so they made perfect sense for her backstory.
Soul Eater, however, a very rare ability which could be unlocked by the Succubus Empress bloodline, was the true key to her disguise as it meant there was no reason for her to not eat souls over normal food. And, in the Violet Mountain Sect, where there were no moral compunctions about such a thing, the only issue would be if her racial ability wasn’t widely known, but that was solved by Epecteos’s actions with the rude emissary from the Hewin Kingdom making her racial ability something that would definitely be talked about.
Finally, her class would hopefully give her an interesting role in the Violet Mountain Sect.
Lawyer (F-Uncommon)
You wield the power of contracts
Effects:
Slightly increase the power of contract category skills.
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
Offensive
Crafting
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 7
Agility: 7
Endurance: 7
Toughness: 7
Vitality: 7
Perception: 7
Magic: 7
Spirit: 7
Soul: 34
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
The Contract (G-Common) skill, Soul greater than 12
Given the main C rank who controlled most of the Violet Mountain Sect’s contracts was in his twilight years, the sect needed to raise a replacement, but the replacement they were currently raising, the granddaughter of King Hewin, had entered into a bottleneck for the last hundred and fifty years, so it was questionable if she would even be able to make it to D rank, let alone C.
King Hewin also had a couple rivals within the Violet Mountain Sect’s elders who very much didn’t want his granddaughter to succeed, at least from the reports Epecteos managed to buy when visiting one of the Carium Galaxy Cluster’s three C rank planets the month before. So Mila’s hope was that they would desire to help raise her as an alternative if she entered the sect, especially given her great-grandfather’s obvious enmity with King Hewin, thus the main reason for Epecteos to kill the Hewin Kingdom’s emissary.
According to Nana Xara, who knew a lot more about the types of politics which would go on among cultivators with ridiculously long lifespans, this was the best route to getting a copy of the Twelve Element Primal Code sent to Epecteos, as old powerhouses were generally quite petty and would thus be much more likely to give something like the copy of a cultivation technique, which cost them nothing, to the enemy of a rival than to a promising subordinate to give to their family member, the two combined making it very likely Aalam would be able to get the cultivation technique within their three year time limit.
Mila then took a deep breath, it finally her turn to fight a monster, and bowed to the crowd, Epecteos’s box especially. Then she summoned a spear from her spatial storage ring and stepped forward to face the relatively weak E rank monster, the defeat of which would represent being able to fight at the seven marks level.
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