Gestation by John Gold (love books to read .txt) 📗

injuries the beast sustained before it died resulted in a bunch of debuffs. I use Earth Magic again, though I don’t get any experience. Looks like I can only do that once per opponent.

The whole day is spent running around the Fields of Ash with my legs buffed. As soon as I see an enemy, I start training my ordinary magic, then my ritual magic, then my necromancy, and finally my ordinary magic once again. It’s perfect! It even turns out that you can work on your Fire Magic by burning the remains of your enemies’ bodies. Cool! If you don’t, they disappear in an hour.

My speed grows quickly, the added boost for my legs letting me run much faster than the ordinary limit. My athleticism improves rapidly, too. I move in zigzags, as that makes things easier when I’m fighting pairs of flying demons. I shoot one down, then shoot down the other, both using magic. Next, it’s time for necromancy. Dark magic is so much fun! Especially when you’re in Hell. And even more when you’re in Hell with nothing better to do.

For two weeks, I run as fast as I can, killing everything attracted by the light of my magic torches. Then, I go to work on their unfortunate bodies and kill them again. It’s only then that they find peace. Ritual magic includes a ceremony, though you can do necromancy without drawing seals. Necromancers have spells and special daggers you can use to raise people. I decide to make one of the daggers.

When items are broken, they break down into the materials that were used to make them. I found that out when I was working on fire resistance. And even if I can’t forge anything yet, I can definitely smelt metal. Then, I can use telekinesis to form it into the shape I want. The hot metal takes on the shape of a long blade.

Linprin dagger

A dagger made by a human without touching tools. It would be a surprise if anyone could use it to kill.

Physical damage: 20-25

Durability: 770/1000

I don’t need much, just a blade. After adding the runes, I activate them with mana.

Linprin ritual dagger

A dagger set with raising the dead runes.

Physical damage: 20-25

Durability: 770/1000

That abuse of the art of smithing earns me a point for my blacksmith profession and another for my blood magic. I now have a dagger I can use to raise the dead, so I’ll be able to do exactly that with one cut to their body once I get to a certain necromancy level.

I’m almost to the end of my run. In three days, I’ll be back where I started.

∞ ∞ ∞

Three days later…

I’m getting tired of the Fields of Ash.

It turns out that you can combine attack spells to intensify the effect when they’re the same type. You can feel the power even without magic vision, though I haven’t been able to see exactly how much damage I’m doing. It’s definitely less than eight separate spells, though I’m doing all of it at once. A great way to break through the defenses of someone with strong resistance. Today, I’ll pick up my ninth stream of consciousness and get to 80% demonification. My skin turns darker when I add power to my body.

∞ ∞ ∞

Demonification: 80%

Your soul is tied to this world, and your flesh is restructuring to match the new world order.

Passive ability unlocked: Nonuple consciousness

You can now think and do nine things at once.

Note: If you accept this ability, you will lose 100 intellect and wisdom. Those points will go toward creating your mental body and the energy channels your ninth stream of consciousness needs.

Accept: Yes/No

Passive ability unlocked: Demon possession, Level 5

You can strengthen five parts of your body by 80%. Using this ability will cost an equal amount of health and stamina.

∞ ∞ ∞

Obviously, I accept the new stream of consciousness. It makes fighting so easy, and my demon possession is crazy. I run about ten meters a second, I can jump fifteen meters, and I can push that to a whole forty if I take a running start. What a rush! Nobody can catch me.

I’ve been in Hell for three months. And I’ve learned so much! Although…I so want to see father, eat some of mama’s fish soup and fish pie, and sit next to the fire in the back yard. But I have to keep going toward the first circle of Hell. Somewhere, there’s a descent down to the lower levels, and the fortresses belonging to the rulers of the realm are there, too. Lots of the demons around them are much stronger than the annoyances I’ve been dealing with in the Fields of Ash.

There’s no point working on my professions, though I definitely need to max out my magic skills. I’ll need stealth, so I need it to be as high as it will go, otherwise I’ll be caught by the first patrol that happens by. There are twenty more days to go until I’ll be completely demonified. In that time, I need to get everything done, and then I’ll get a move on it.

Even in Hell, you can make your own little hell for the demons there. I need to boost my mind magic.

Spell: Stun

Description: Stuns victims with low mental resistance. Your intellect determines whether you will successfully stun them.

Effect: Stun for 3 seconds

Mana: 10

I stun four imps, not letting any of them get close to me. Then, I give one a merciless beatdown before healing him. I keep that up for twelve hours straight. Even I have a conscience though. They die quickly, and I find others.

There’s more time for the game. I finished my exams for the year. There haven’t been any fights, so I have sixteen hours a day now.

A week later, I’m stunning six imps at a time, standing behind them in stealth mode. A seventh appears every three minutes. They get an easy death, a resurrection, another death, and the fire. Next! It’s kind of a