Mila
You have a servitor relationship with Aalam Alvaro.
Are you willing to maintain that relationship during your rebirth?
Yes/No
When the time was up, Mila saw this notification in front of her eyes and, after a brief pause, she accepted. Then the gambling hall around her faded and she found herself floating in an empty void, more System messages all she could see.
You have 623,879,540 Trial Points
Congratulations!
This is the second highest in the tutorial.
Trial points increased by 25%
You have 779,849,425 Trial Points
As you are a servant of Aalam Alvaro, all your Trial Points will go to him.
Your master will choose your bloodline, race, and any other benefits for you.
“Wait. What?” Mila hadn’t known being able to use Aalam’s insane number of points meant he’d get to make the choices for her. And the fact Nana Xara hadn’t told her made her think she wouldn’t like the results.
Quickly, she looked at Aalam’s feed.
You have 95,248,812,492,630,856 Trial Points
Congratulations!
This is the highest in the tutorial.
Trial points increased by 50%
You have 142,873,218,738,946,284 Trial Points
Your servitor Li Mila has granted you 779,849,425 Trial Points
You have 142,873,219,518,795,709 Trial Points
You may choose rewards for yourself and servitor Li Mila
Aalam had also received a message asking if he wanted to accept her as his servant, and he’d accepted, so now, if Aalam wanted, he could make her the cheapest type of monster possible, and there was nothing she could do about it.
She didn’t have any worries about this, however. Aalam couldn’t stop himself from trying to optimize, even with other people’s builds, so he was going to make her powerful. What she worried about was that he almost certainly had a plan for what bloodline and race to choose for her already, and he likely wouldn’t consider things like form, aesthetics, or morals.
As she worried, a System menu showed up in front of Aalam and, through their bond, Mila could see the menu too, even if she couldn’t interact with it.
Races | Bloodlines | Techniques | Boons | Other
Aalam being Aalam, he then began to look through every single option and, while Mila had absolutely no control, she could see everything he could.
He first looked at races and there were a lot of them, ranging from Inferior grade to Legendary, the cheapest something called a Puddle Newt.
Puddle Newt (G-Inferior)
A tiny newt monster that lives in puddles and feeds off ambient mana and insects.
Racial Abilities: 1
Limited to water and earth element abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 102
Agility: 120
Endurance: 126
Toughness: 102
Vitality: 128
Perception: 108
Magic: 106
Spirit: 108
Soul: 108
Aura: 108
Attunement: 36
Luck: 144
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
None. Unable to advance without high end treasures.
Cost: 12 Trial Points
The fact it cost 12 Trial Points showed that anyone with less wouldn’t even have the chance at being reborn, their souls instead fading into nothing like would have happened had their souls not been collected in the first place.
The most expensive Legendary grade race, on the other hand, seemed a lot cooler. And it also had a built in pathway to higher grade races at higher ranks.
Chaos Dragon Hatchling (G-Legendary)
The hatchling of one of the three most powerful dragon races in the universe. Powerful in its own right and filled with nearly unlimited potential.
Racial Abilities: 4
No order related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 252
Agility: 216
Endurance: 252
Toughness: 288
Vitality: 288
Perception: 252
Magic: 360
Spirit: 288
Soul: 324
Aura: 324
Attunement: 324
Luck: 288
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
Live for 2 standard years. Comes with automatic grade increase.
Cost: 1,283,918,464,548,864 Trial Points
Unlike races, the available bloodlines ranged from Rare to Mythic grade, with even the cheapest costing more than most Common grade races.
Child of Fire (Rare)
One who’s been touched by flame
Effects:
Fire element abilities are easier to learn and slightly more powerful
Magic +2 per level
Cost: 1,728 Trial Points
There were equivalent bloodlines for water, earth, and wind elements for the same cost, but the ones for lightning, metal, light, and darkness cost double, and the ones for life, death, space, and time cost double again. The single element bloodlines at each grade, however, were the cheapest there were, and bloodlines with more specialized effects generally cost more.
The most expensive bloodline of all, for example, just had two simple yet powerful effects.
God of War (Mythic)
Aspect of slaughter personified
Effects:
Increase the effectiveness of all stats by 100% when in combat
Increase the effectiveness of all stats by a further 6.25% for 15 minutes after every kill, up to +200%
Cost: 15,407,021,574,586,368 Trial Points
With just 32 kills, the holder of this Mythic bloodline could match the performance of Aalam’s Fabled grade uniqueness when in his own Territory. Granted, uniquenesses were generally far more powerful than bloodlines of equivalent grade, but still, Prince was overpowered.
Aalam then looked at the techniques and the list was far shorter. The legacy Mila had received from the Weaponsmaster was better than most for forming a strong foundation at G rank. What these techniques had that her legacy didn’t, however, is that they would be specially modified to the race and bloodline chosen.
According to Nana Xara, the techniques were a trap by the designers of the monster tutorials. The amount of energy the System would put in to the creation of new bodies was proportional to the amount of pathways required by the techniques chosen, so the correct thing to do was to just buy all of them even if you wouldn’t use any.
For each of them, the total cost of buying all the cultivation techniques would only be a bit over 5 billion—and this was without using the tokens they’d received during the final challenge, removing the cost of the most expensive three altogether—so, without even looking at any of the techniques, Aalam just bought all of the cultivation techniques available for them both.
Boons were next and all the boons they’d seen during the last two challenges were there, though the one for adding a uniqueness, which was worth the same amount as the Chaos Dragon Hatchling race, was grayed out. Instead there was a notification saying they couldn’t safely receive the same boon for another two years.
There was also another boon they’d never seen before, the ability to add a new Mana Well, and Aalam quickly bought her nine Medium sized Mana Wells, which would bring her count up to twelve Medium-sized and one Large when the process started after all his choices were made.
The first new Mana Well cost nearly nine trillion Trial Points and every one after that cost double, the entire nine costing around four and a half quadrillion.
Aalam then paid another nine trillion Trial Points to increase the size of her mental forge from Large to Huge, and another nine trillion to increase the size of his own Core Container from Large to Huge. Then, finally, he increased the size of his twelve Small Mana Wells to Medium, for nearly three million Trial Points each, and increased the size of his one Medium Mana Well to Large for a bit more than five billion.
The end result? After they were reborn as monsters, they would have the exact same soulstructures, one Huge Core Container, twelve Medium and one Large Mana Wells, and one Huge Mental Forge, albeit in Aalam’s case he would have two more Mental Forges from his Multi-Mind skill as well.
She didn’t know why he was doing this, but she suspected it was to unlock something for her, and she didn’t know whether to be thankful or fearful.
Aalam then switched to the Other tab and Mila didn’t see any new notifications for a while, so she sent a question over their bond. “Aalam, what’s happening?”
“I’m negotiating with the System.” Aalam sounded quite happy, so it seemed to be going well. “Adding and increasing the size of soulstructures is not a very clean process, leaving issues that would take quite a lot of treasures to alleviate later, so I was trying to figure out how many Trial Points would be required to fix all those problems during the process instead of us having to deal with it later, and the cost seems quite reasonable.
“And now I’m trying to see if I can get a bloodline which wasn’t on the list. From Nana Xara’s information, it should be possible.” There was a short pause. “And apparently, because I had three unique achievements during the tutorial, it is.”
A new System message then popped up in front of Mila, showing the bloodline Aalam had chosen for himself.
Genetic Thief (Mythic)
Some steal legacies, you steal inheritance in its purest form
Effects:
Once per rank, you may steal the genetic power, from both race and bloodline, of a being who has died, but whose soul is yet to pass on, and use that power to enhance your next racial advancement
Cost: 61,628,086,298,345,472 Trial Points
He then went back to the bloodline list and chose a bloodline for her as well.
Prime Servitor (Mythic)
You are your master’s agent, in body as well as soul
Effects:
After entering into a master servant bond with a master of the same race and rank as you, if that master ever changes his or her race when advancing, you may change to the same race when advancing as well, even if you don’t meet the requirements
Cost: 3,851,755,393,646,592 Trial Points
And there it was, the thing Mila wouldn’t like, or at least that’s what she hoped. Given Aalam’s bloodline, his advancements would be nearly impossible to match and this bloodline would allow her to gain the same benefits, effectively tying her growth in power even more to Aalam’s continued existence.
But then he chose what their race would be.
Incubus/Succubus (G-Uncommon)
The weakest variety of an incarnation of Lust, but an incarnation of Lust nonetheless, one which eats souls.
Racial Abilities: 2
No limits, but a higher chance for charm and disguise related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 144
Agility: 144
Endurance: 162
Toughness: 144
Vitality: 162
Perception: 180
Magic: 192
Spirit: 216
Soul: 252
Aura: 192
Attunement: 192
Luck: 180
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
Eat an F rank or higher soul of a sentient creature consumed by lust at the time of death.
Cost: 10,368 Trial Points
While Aalam began to negotiate with the System for the use of the rest of their points, Mila started thinking about the best ways to kill him, the slower and more painful the better.
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Mila
You have a servitor relationship with Aalam Alvaro.
Are you willing to maintain that relationship during your rebirth?
Yes/No
When the time was up, Mila saw this notification in front of her eyes and, after a brief pause, she accepted. Then the gambling hall around her faded and she found herself floating in an empty void, more System messages all she could see.
You have 623,879,540 Trial Points
Congratulations!
This is the second highest in the tutorial.
Trial points increased by 25%
You have 779,849,425 Trial Points
As you are a servant of Aalam Alvaro, all your Trial Points will go to him.
Your master will choose your bloodline, race, and any other benefits for you.
“Wait. What?” Mila hadn’t known being able to use Aalam’s insane number of points meant he’d get to make the choices for her. And the fact Nana Xara hadn’t told her made her think she wouldn’t like the results.
Quickly, she looked at Aalam’s feed.
You have 95,248,812,492,630,856 Trial Points
Congratulations!
This is the highest in the tutorial.
Trial points increased by 50%
You have 142,873,218,738,946,284 Trial Points
Your servitor Li Mila has granted you 779,849,425 Trial Points
You have 142,873,219,518,795,709 Trial Points
You may choose rewards for yourself and servitor Li Mila
Aalam had also received a message asking if he wanted to accept her as his servant, and he’d accepted, so now, if Aalam wanted, he could make her the cheapest type of monster possible, and there was nothing she could do about it.
She didn’t have any worries about this, however. Aalam couldn’t stop himself from trying to optimize, even with other people’s builds, so he was going to make her powerful. What she worried about was that he almost certainly had a plan for what bloodline and race to choose for her already, and he likely wouldn’t consider things like form, aesthetics, or morals.
As she worried, a System menu showed up in front of Aalam and, through their bond, Mila could see the menu too, even if she couldn’t interact with it.
Races | Bloodlines | Techniques | Boons | Other
Aalam being Aalam, he then began to look through every single option and, while Mila had absolutely no control, she could see everything he could.
He first looked at races and there were a lot of them, ranging from Inferior grade to Legendary, the cheapest something called a Puddle Newt.
Puddle Newt (G-Inferior)
A tiny newt monster that lives in puddles and feeds off ambient mana and insects.
Racial Abilities: 1
Limited to water and earth element abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 102
Agility: 120
Endurance: 126
Toughness: 102
Vitality: 128
Perception: 108
Magic: 106
Spirit: 108
Soul: 108
Aura: 108
Attunement: 36
Luck: 144
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
None. Unable to advance without high end treasures.
Cost: 12 Trial Points
The fact it cost 12 Trial Points showed that anyone with less wouldn’t even have the chance at being reborn, their souls instead fading into nothing like would have happened had their souls not been collected in the first place.
The most expensive Legendary grade race, on the other hand, seemed a lot cooler. And it also had a built in pathway to higher grade races at higher ranks.
Chaos Dragon Hatchling (G-Legendary)
The hatchling of one of the three most powerful dragon races in the universe. Powerful in its own right and filled with nearly unlimited potential.
Racial Abilities: 4
No order related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 252
Agility: 216
Endurance: 252
Toughness: 288
Vitality: 288
Perception: 252
Magic: 360
Spirit: 288
Soul: 324
Aura: 324
Attunement: 324
Luck: 288
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
Live for 2 standard years. Comes with automatic grade increase.
Cost: 1,283,918,464,548,864 Trial Points
Unlike races, the available bloodlines ranged from Rare to Mythic grade, with even the cheapest costing more than most Common grade races.
Child of Fire (Rare)
One who’s been touched by flame
Effects:
Fire element abilities are easier to learn and slightly more powerful
Magic +2 per level
Cost: 1,728 Trial Points
There were equivalent bloodlines for water, earth, and wind elements for the same cost, but the ones for lightning, metal, light, and darkness cost double, and the ones for life, death, space, and time cost double again. The single element bloodlines at each grade, however, were the cheapest there were, and bloodlines with more specialized effects generally cost more.
The most expensive bloodline of all, for example, just had two simple yet powerful effects.
God of War (Mythic)
Aspect of slaughter personified
Effects:
Increase the effectiveness of all stats by 100% when in combat
Increase the effectiveness of all stats by a further 6.25% for 15 minutes after every kill, up to +200%
Cost: 15,407,021,574,586,368 Trial Points
With just 32 kills, the holder of this Mythic bloodline could match the performance of Aalam’s Fabled grade uniqueness when in his own Territory. Granted, uniquenesses were generally far more powerful than bloodlines of equivalent grade, but still, Prince was overpowered.
Aalam then looked at the techniques and the list was far shorter. The legacy Mila had received from the Weaponsmaster was better than most for forming a strong foundation at G rank. What these techniques had that her legacy didn’t, however, is that they would be specially modified to the race and bloodline chosen.
According to Nana Xara, the techniques were a trap by the designers of the monster tutorials. The amount of energy the System would put in to the creation of new bodies was proportional to the amount of pathways required by the techniques chosen, so the correct thing to do was to just buy all of them even if you wouldn’t use any.
For each of them, the total cost of buying all the cultivation techniques would only be a bit over 5 billion—and this was without using the tokens they’d received during the final challenge, removing the cost of the most expensive three altogether—so, without even looking at any of the techniques, Aalam just bought all of the cultivation techniques available for them both.
Boons were next and all the boons they’d seen during the last two challenges were there, though the one for adding a uniqueness, which was worth the same amount as the Chaos Dragon Hatchling race, was grayed out. Instead there was a notification saying they couldn’t safely receive the same boon for another two years.
There was also another boon they’d never seen before, the ability to add a new Mana Well, and Aalam quickly bought her nine Medium sized Mana Wells, which would bring her count up to twelve Medium-sized and one Large when the process started after all his choices were made.
The first new Mana Well cost nearly nine trillion Trial Points and every one after that cost double, the entire nine costing around four and a half quadrillion.
Aalam then paid another nine trillion Trial Points to increase the size of her mental forge from Large to Huge, and another nine trillion to increase the size of his own Core Container from Large to Huge. Then, finally, he increased the size of his twelve Small Mana Wells to Medium, for nearly three million Trial Points each, and increased the size of his one Medium Mana Well to Large for a bit more than five billion.
The end result? After they were reborn as monsters, they would have the exact same soulstructures, one Huge Core Container, twelve Medium and one Large Mana Wells, and one Huge Mental Forge, albeit in Aalam’s case he would have two more Mental Forges from his Multi-Mind skill as well.
She didn’t know why he was doing this, but she suspected it was to unlock something for her, and she didn’t know whether to be thankful or fearful.
Aalam then switched to the Other tab and Mila didn’t see any new notifications for a while, so she sent a question over their bond. “Aalam, what’s happening?”
“I’m negotiating with the System.” Aalam sounded quite happy, so it seemed to be going well. “Adding and increasing the size of soulstructures is not a very clean process, leaving issues that would take quite a lot of treasures to alleviate later, so I was trying to figure out how many Trial Points would be required to fix all those problems during the process instead of us having to deal with it later, and the cost seems quite reasonable.
“And now I’m trying to see if I can get a bloodline which wasn’t on the list. From Nana Xara’s information, it should be possible.” There was a short pause. “And apparently, because I had three unique achievements during the tutorial, it is.”
A new System message then popped up in front of Mila, showing the bloodline Aalam had chosen for himself.
Genetic Thief (Mythic)
Some steal legacies, you steal inheritance in its purest form
Effects:
Once per rank, you may steal the genetic power, from both race and bloodline, of a being who has died, but whose soul is yet to pass on, and use that power to enhance your next racial advancement
Cost: 61,628,086,298,345,472 Trial Points
He then went back to the bloodline list and chose a bloodline for her as well.
Prime Servitor (Mythic)
You are your master’s agent, in body as well as soul
Effects:
After entering into a master servant bond with a master of the same race and rank as you, if that master ever changes his or her race when advancing, you may change to the same race when advancing as well, even if you don’t meet the requirements
Cost: 3,851,755,393,646,592 Trial Points
And there it was, the thing Mila wouldn’t like, or at least that’s what she hoped. Given Aalam’s bloodline, his advancements would be nearly impossible to match and this bloodline would allow her to gain the same benefits, effectively tying her growth in power even more to Aalam’s continued existence.
But then he chose what their race would be.
Incubus/Succubus (G-Uncommon)
The weakest variety of an incarnation of Lust, but an incarnation of Lust nonetheless, one which eats souls.
Racial Abilities: 2
No limits, but a higher chance for charm and disguise related abilities
Max stats:
Strength: 144
Agility: 144
Endurance: 162
Toughness: 144
Vitality: 162
Perception: 180
Magic: 192
Spirit: 216
Soul: 252
Aura: 192
Attunement: 192
Luck: 180
Stat Growth Per Level:
Not applicable for G rank
Advancement Criteria:
Eat an F rank or higher soul of a sentient creature consumed by lust at the time of death.
Cost: 10,368 Trial Points
While Aalam began to negotiate with the System for the use of the rest of their points, Mila started thinking about the best ways to kill him, the slower and more painful the better.
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