Chapter 83 – Unliving Heart awakening.
After resting up a bit and checking out stuff online about the game, I logged back into the game and meet up with the dwarf in order to finally start working and training for the dwarf as an official apprentice.
The dwarf teaching were quite harsh and everything, but I just focused on learning.
For my plans, I need to learn as much as possible from the dwarf.
While I was learning from the dwarf, I had also focused on producing stuff as well as continue my own researches.
Honestly, I pretty much spend days either in the dwarf workshop or in my own house just crafting and researching.
I did went hunting few times, but not many times really.
I also spend a lot of time producing items that I would later on sell to the people for some cash.
Then I would go to the dwarf and work for him while also learning stuff from him, then I would go home and do my own research, then I go hunting, then I make and sell some times.
Again, and again.
Pretty much each day was like this.
However, it's not like I was not making progress.
With each day my crafting skills were improving and not only that but my research was progressing more and more.
Not only that, thanks to the dwarf teaching I was able to fix out many holes in research that focuses on developing special items using the Unliving Heart data, necromancer teachings and the dwarf teachings.
I'm not trying to create another Unliving Heart, no.
What I'm trying to do is research and crafting. Simple put I'm trying to create items somewhat similar to the Unliving Heart crafting method that the necromancer and the dwarf had developed.
I was with them when I was crafting that, but I didn't fully understood what was going on nor some parts of the data.
So, that's why I need the dwarf teaching.
I will use his knowledge to fill out the gabs and try to understand the crafting method.
Now here is the question. Why?
Why I need this specific crafting method?
The answer: I'm cyborg.
If I understand this crafting method and create special body parts for myself.
The Unliving Heart isn't only mechanical organ, but its also magical. A combination of magic and machine. A combination I was looking for.
I know combination between magic and machine, but not on this level and this kind of combination.
If my theory is correct and everything else, then I will have a knowledge how to upgrade my body to way higher level in terms of power.
As for the magic guns? They are still being researched.
I'm making progress with them, however for any big progress I need to use higher ranking mana gems as well as mana crystals, and obviously they are not cheap.
Still, thanks to the dwarf teaching I'm now able to create way better items and thanks to that, I'm earning way more money than before.
People are also talking about me, the "Wood Mask".
Honestly, it's no surprise since I'm selling high quality stuff as an "Player" and not as NPC.
I can already see again people harassing me to join them or something…. Well, thanks to the dwarf connections I won't have to worry about some annoying people going after me.
Still, I should be bit carefully when wearing my wood mask, since they are looking for "Wood Mask" and not just some zombie player.
However, the situation is also very favorable to me.
It's like before. The more famous the "Wood Mask" gets, the more smother and better the business will go. So, it's not really that bad about people wanting to meet me and everything.
Not only that, since a lot of players are coming to this city now, the number of the possible clients are increasing.
So yay, income.
….
Hm….
Did I mentioned everything?
Dwarf…. Every day repeat…. I think I mentioned everything.
[Unliving Heart] – [Mutation had reached 100%]
"…."
"Oh." – Phantasia stared at the message inside his house.
"Right. I kind of forgotten about it since the progress was so slow each- "
"?!"
Phantasia suddenly grabbed in his as his sudden surprised looked changed to look of pain and confusion.
"Oh! This isn't nice!"
(Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!)
(It kind of feels like there are worms crawling inside my veins! WTF is this?!)
"?!"
Phantasia looked at his hands and noticed the weird glow growing through his veins before his own eyes began glowing with green glow while his vision began getting weirdly greenly blurry for a one second before then returning to normal.
[The [Unliving Heart] had been fully bonded with you and had become part of you.]
[The mutation process had been finished.]
"…. Okay…. That catched me completely of surprise and was quite weird…. WHY?! Why the hell it felt that way?!" – said Phantasia after returning completely to normal.
(Honestly, I don't think having a glowing veins in the middle of the daylight would be a good thing. I mean, I would stand out WAY TOO MUCH!)
(Good thing I was inside my house of all things.)
"…."
"Anyway… I don't fell any…. Different? Did it really worked?"
[The [Unliving Heart] has now became a part of your current existence.]
[You have obtained new characteristic trait: [Elemental Being – Partial – Necrotic].]
[By the influence of the [Unliving Heart], you had obtained a special growth effect. For each level you possess, increase your [Necromancy Mastery] stat by 5 points.]
"?!"
"Oh! I got multiple stuff…... Wait…. What with that effect?!"
(5 points increase of the [Necromancy Mastery] stat per level?! This is crazy!)
(I'm over level 200 already, so I'm getting a 1000 from get go?!)
(Jezus! And it can still grows?!)
(No wonder that fuking necromancer wanted something like that!) Enjoy new tales from empire
"Hm?"
"Characteristic Trait? What the hell is this?"
[Elemental Being – Partial – Necrotic]
[An being that is particularly a being of the necrotic element itself, but is not an elemental being.]
[Effect]
[Noticeable Increase resistance against necrotic elemental negative effects.]
[Increase base defense against necrotic element by 50%]
[Increase performance of the necrotic elemental related or the necromancy skills, abilities, attacks as well as other related stuff by by 50%]
[Decrees resistance against light elemental negative effects.]
[Decrees base defense against light element by 25%]
[Decrees performance of the light elemental related skills, abilities, attacks as well as other related by 25%]
[Counts as a necrotic being (Partial).]
"Oh…. Shit."
(This fuking necromancer!)
(No fuking wondered he wanted to get that heart at any cost!)
(The effects of this thing are massive and I mean it!)
(The first effect alone boost my necromancer class power by boosting [Necromancy Mastery].)
(AND!)
(The number of undeads, including chimeras just straight up skyrocket!)
(….)
(Wait, the heart should have two different mutation depending on the user being either alive or dead…. What kind of effect would that have on that necromancer if he instead took it?)
(MEH! WHO CARES!?)
(What matter is that heart is now fully part of me and I'm reaping all the benefits from it!)
(But seriously speaking right now, this is OP!)
(Screw the downsides, it's still OP!)
(….)
(My race didn't seem to have changed?)
(Huh.)
(I though it would change or something, but nope?)
(I mean, I though because of that characteristic trait thing.)
(Still, this is an interesting thing anyway.)
(My appearance did not seemed to have changed a lot or anything like that.)
Phantasia picked the mirror and looked at it.
(….)
"Nothing wrong with my face…. No glowing veins or other stuff."
"My chest also looks completely normal."
(I guess I can continue working without any problems or anything like that, since I look completely normal and stuff.)
(But later on I should look bit more what exactly happened to me.)
(For example, did the change that had happened to me had affected my cyborg modification in any way? Does it now get in the way? Or it does something unexpected?)
"…."
'SIGH'
"I'm really interested about it all, but it's also giving way more job to do…. For fuck sake."
"I have already busy schedule and everything and now I have to research even more stuff?"
(And it's not like I "Can't" do it, since I have to do it considering that there maybe some effects that may end up affecting me in the ways I have yet to notice.)
"…."
"There are also other problems."
"For example, now I have ton of new questions that I really want to have answers to."
"I also need to test out few things out and see if everything is okay and stuff as well."
"…."
(Things are finally starting interesting, but also unknown as well as annoying….. Why the hell can't it be simple?!)
(I need some information regarding the elemental beings as well as characteristic traits.)
(Should I ask the dwarf? He would definitely know something…...But…...)
(…. Nah. It's better if he doesn't know about my current state.)
(The other good person I could ask would be.... Necromancer that I killed...Yea…. Fuck.)
(So I guess I have to find out things on my own and let's hope it won't too long to find out the answers I'm looking for.)