The Cult Of Amaymon Part 1

“What’s this?” wondered Gray as he opened his system vision. At first, he thought that the low buzz that had been bothering him would go away after a while, but after two hours of travel, he realized that it was just a system notification. The notification seemed to be coming from the [Player Stats] tab. After opening it with a thought’s command, he came to see what the notification was about.

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[Gray Verlice]

[Level 5: 20/100] !

[Mana points: 500/500] !

[Safe Blood meter: 100%]

[10 Unused points]!

[Agility: 10 {16}]

[Strength: 12 {19.2}]

[Stamina: 8 {12.8]

[Attack force: 3 {4.8}]

[Karma: -100]!

[1 Unused point]!

[He who pleasures death lvl.1 {2/3}: 0/100]

[Blood weapons lvl.1: 0/5]

[Hisashi Miyamoto Summon lvl.3: 0/10]

[Demon Specter Hybrid]

[Demon Rank: Servus]

[Specter Rank: Progenitor]

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{Seems I leveled up. Those villagers probably dropped some form of experience,} thought Gray as he looked over his stats. Though he was now level 5 there was no change to his player stats, instead, he had gained points which he had to allocate himself. Though he much preferred this system to stats randomly being assigned, the allocated points for each level were… a little underwhelming.

{So it's 2 points per level huh?} thought Gray after doing the quick maths. Compared to taking potions, leveling seemed far inferior, in fact, the leveling system seemed entirely redundant.

{No, no, I should calm down. I haven’t even breached level 10 yet, maybe things will change,} he thought to himself, before noticing the unused ability point he had gained.

{Wait, don’t I still have-} after opening the system shop he realized he was right. He did in fact still have a few Arcanian points left over from completing the [Tower of Laplus].

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『New Vautis Visual System』- Owned

『Minor Mana Elixir 』- 500

『Minor Stamina Elixir 』- 500

『Minor Health Elixir 』- 500

『Recovery Elixir Level 2』- 3000

『Stamina Increasing Elixir』- 1000

『Strength Increasing Elixir』- 1000

『Agility Increasing Elixir』- 1000

『Ability Increasing Elixir』- 1000

⋞ 〈 5000 Arcanian points Remaining 〉 ⋟

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{Hmm, should I invest all my points into stats or upgrade one of my abilities. I haven’t seen any humans since I got here, so upgrading [Hisashi Miyamoto] would be useless, besides I don’t have enough points anyway, even if I used all my Arcanian points to buy extra. As for [He who pleasures death], I still have an open slot that I haven’t used, I’ll upgrade it after I find a suitable skill. Perhaps something with a bit of utility this time, my combat abilities right now are being held back by my lack of skill, not my ability pool.} After pondering for a bit more, Gray ended up buying 2 x『Strength Increasing Elixir』, 1 x 『Agility Increasing Elixir』, and 2 x 『Stamina Increasing Elixir』. After drinking all the elixirs, he assigned all 10 of his unused stat points into his attack force stat and the unused ability point into his  [Blood weapons] ability.

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[Gray Verlice]

[Level 5: 20/100]

[Mana points: 500/500]

[Safe Blood meter: 100%]

[Agility: 15 {24}]

[Strength: 22 {35.2}]

[Stamina: 18 {27]

[Attack force: 4 {6.4}]

[Karma: -100]

[He who pleasures death lvl.1 {2/3}: 0/100]

[Blood weapons lvl.1: 1/5]

[Hisashi Miyamoto Summon lvl.3: 0/10]

[Demon Specter Hybrid]

[Demon Rank: Servus]

[Specter Rank: Progenitor]

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“Perfect,” he mumbled to himself before refocusing his attention on the path ahead.

{That's odd, it's been 2 hours and she hasn’t woken up yet. Was the backlash from my ability that bad?} he wondered to himself as Tesse’s head lay on his chest. Though if he had been able to see her from a different angle, he would have noticed her bright red cheeks and the smile on her face.

After 2 more hours of travel, they finally made it to the gates of Axial. It seemed to be a reasonably large town, larger than Gray’s town anyway. As he got to the front of the gates the guards stationed there they gave him hostile looks, before one of them stepped in front of his horse.

“Identification documents,” grunted the guard, staring daggers at Gray.

“Heh? Who do you thin-“

{Concentrate. If you kill anyone here you’ll fail the mission, and the last thing you need is a vampire hunting you down,} warned the specter before Gray’s anger got the best of him.

{Shut up, I know that already.}

“I’m here on behalf of the Kalin Nation. I’ve been instructed to talk to Ailre Daexalim, you’d do well to take me to him,” replied Gray, with a somewhat unnecessarily threatening tone.

“Hmmph. Where is the rest of your squadron?” asked another one of the other guards.

“Squadron? We were the only ones sent.”

“What? I knew the vampires were behind this whole thing. Look at what they sent,” complained one of the guards, though his comrade quickly calmed him down.

“Follow me, I’ll direct you to his quarters,” said the first guard, before opening the town gates. Though Gray was expecting a somewhat medieval setting, he was surprised to find that the town looked rather modernized. Well, as modernized as a magic-driven world could get. The houses seemed to have been made centering their own type of architecture which consisted of flat circular rooves and cloverleaf arch-ways doors. The houses seemed to be made out of a strong enough material, and the paths were reinforced with a rock-like material.

{It seems there’s a bit of friction between the humans and the vampires,} inferred Gray after seeing all the glances everyone gave him as he followed the guard atop his horse.

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[System Information]

Ailre Daexalim

Ailre was once considered one of the strongest lower-level generals in the Kingdom of Elden. Though after the former king died and his daughter ascended the throne, he was stripped of his first-order general title on the pretense that he was too weak and replaced by one of the new Queen's strawmen. He was reassigned to the border patrol division and currently holds the title of Head Captain. He hopes to gain public favor by ridding the kingdom of the terror which is the Cult of Amaymon.

Alignment: Elden Kingdom 

Interests: Serving the people of Elden

Hostile towards: The Cult of Amaymon and all enemies of the state

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