Chapter 548 - 547 – Race change.
<<Welp, we obtained 2 divinities in a single go.>>
<<That… It wasn't planned.>>
<<I mean it seriously; I didn't though we would hit freaking triple jackpot with my guess.>>
<<I thought we would need to search like what? At least 7 places before we gotten something?>>
<<Still, the fact remains that we did it.>>
<<We hit triple jack pot… But we didn't get all 3 divinities.>>
<<The divinity related to chains.>>
<<It was guarded by the slime city.>>
<<And somebody had exterminated the whole city… And we know who.>>
<<Apple.>>
<<He is the user of the divinity that must had been stored in that temple.>>
<<By the looks of things we have competition who active way before us.>>
<<But does he only hunt for single divinity? Or does he want more?>>
<<That is the problem.>>
<<Apple is a wild card that recently joined and we have straight up no info on the bastard.>>
<<Not only that, he found the temple long time ago… That means he is somewhat way better at finding the temples.>>
<<He may had figured out the three guesses that I've made.>>
<<History.>>
<<Weird territory.>>
<<A some kind of territory where it can defend and hide something from unwanted eyes.>>
<<By the looks of things, all 3 of my guesses were correct?>>
<<And all 3 targeted locations that I've chosen were all also correct?>>
<<It is still… I mean, bit weird.>>
<<Was I just that smart or did I got some kind of bullshit luck?>>
<<…Either way, the fact that it worked, may lead us to other divinities.>>
<<Me and Thanatos obtained two divinities.>>
<<And I'm going to say this straight.>>
<<Even though both of them are level 1, they still provided somewhat broken skills for us.>>
<<And that is both good… And problem.>>
<<We saw Arthur with his divinity of a sun.>>
<<And he was a monster.>>
<<We saw Diamond with his new divinity during tournament, and even though it was young, it still provided him broken buff.>>
<<And there was also Apple.>>
<<Just having single divinity makes you a monster.>>
<<But if rankers get them? Oh boy, they will straight up evolve.>>
<<Still, there also comes the terms of growth.>>
<<We saw clearly the difference between Diamond and both Arthur as well as Apple.>>
<<We need time!>>
<<And that is why we need to race to obtain the third divinity for Maparapara.>>
<<Still, beside the divinity we have 2 more problems.>>
<<First, the ruined city of slimes.>>
<<Apple and his men completely annihilated them.>>
<<With them gone, the players had completely lost any means of obtaining the slime race.>>
<<Honestly, I could just leave them be or just exterminate them.>>
<<Still, Maparapara asked directly to save them, since she liked those guys… And I really don't want to destroy the trust between us.>>
<<Not only that, maybe I could recruit the slimes to my side?>>
<<I would need allies that are loyal TO ME!>>
<<So yeah, rescuing them seems like a good thing.>>
<<…>>
<<Beside slimes, I need to do one more thing.>>
<<Race.>>
<<I need to obtain new main race.>>
<<My first and original main race, I still have it.>>
<<Undead – Zombie.>>
<<I didn't changed it, or more exactly, I didn't had opportunity yet to change it into anything else.>>
<<But now comes the problem.>>
<<I need to change it in order to become stronger for my plans.>>
(But which one?) – thought the man playing as Phantasia as he was sitting right next to his computer.
(The best candidates for me are these two.)
(Death Knight Ascended race.)
(And Lich Ascended race.)
(Unlike regular death knight and lich monsters, these are special races that the people are using and they are also superior compare to the regular death knight and lich.)
(The lich ascended is a race that focuses on magic and necromancy.)
(And the death knight ascended is a physical focused race that also uses necromancy.)
(Honestly speaking, both of these races are good pick for me, since I'm all-rounder.)
(But in terms of leading the armies, the lich is far better pick.)
"…"
"But do I just want to have either of these?"
(I mean, I know that there isn't some kind of "god race"… Well, there is demi-god…)
(FUCK! I'M JUST SAYING! That there is no way there is a race that will straight up power me up in all areas that I specializes in.)
(Then again, both of these races are somewhat strong in the first place, so I cannot really complain… Do I?>>
<<I've tried looking bit more about this… But I really couldn't find any race that really fit me.>>
<<Maybe there is some kind of rare if not legendary race out there that I can use.>>
<<Then again, by now most useful stuff must had been taken by the other players.>>
<<Not only that, we have our hands already more filled up with work… So I don't have really have time to search around for any unique races.>>
<<…>>
<<Still, what about the cyborg?>>
<<A special subrace that you can obtain.>>
<<My second main race, the [Chaos Cyborg] became the [Chaos Research Abomination] after I've created the final research.>>
<<I've looked it up, and the cyborg race is extremely far more inferior compare to my [Chaos Cyborg]… But how would that even work with my own race combo?>>
<<I mean, I'm already a cyborg.>>
<<So would that really… Nah, it may had instead give me some kind of restrictions instead… Not doing that crap.>>
<<I'm just turning myself into a lich.>>
<<To become a lich, you need to do 3 things.>>
<<First, the life ritual.>>
<<You need to gather up enough life force as sacrifice.>>
<<The second ritual is the death ritual.>>
<<Create a sacrifice out of undeads.>>
<<And finally, the third ritual.>>
<<The ritual of knowledge.>>
<<This one is quiet simple, you need to have enough energy to run all rituals.>>
<<And…. Okay, there was really no problem here.>>
<<I've obtained the ritual scroll from the organization and easily completed all 3 requirements.>>
"Wowowowowow!" – said Maparapara.
"Stop!"
"Hm? What?" – asked Phantasia as he was standing in the middle of 3 layered magic circle.
"I mean, I thought it would take you something like a freaking month to turn yourself into lich and what not… But aren't you doing… I don't know?"
"Way too quickly?"
"…"
"I mean… She isn't wrong." – said Thanatos.
"Both lich and death knight races aren't exactly races you can easily get your hands on."
"And yet, you freaking finished the preparations in few days."
"This is… Well… Quiet illegal in a way?"
"I mean… I'm asshole, rich and powerful necromancer, aren't I? Why shouldn't it take me long to finish the ritual?"
"Gathering life for the soul lanterns to eat."
"Murdering and reviving powerful monsters, before then sacrificing them."
"And just creating the energy sources for it all."
"As for the ritual scroll, it did cost quite a bit, both in faction currency and my own pocket, but still, I'm rich like fucking hell."
"Why it shouldn't take me long to finish?"
"No I mean…." – said Maparapara as she then suddenly went silent for a bit.
"…"
"I mean…. Em…. Like hard to archive?"
"…"
"Ah, fuck it."
"Just do it." – said Maparapara as she given up.
(I mean… I too think it should took that guy a while to finish this.) – thought Thanatos.
(But like nothing, he is going to archive one of more rare races with complete ease.)
(This could be quiet called… Just bullshit.) – thought Thanatos as Phantasia took on his bare body appearance, before then clapping his hands and causing all 3 magic circles around him to activate.
Mana began dancing.
Life energy began screaming.
The dead began praying.
The three magic circles activated and began rotating around Phantasia who stood in the middle of each them.
The energies from each of the circles began flowing to the middle, heading towards Phantasia as they all combined, forming something akin to cocoon around the zombie player's body.
And before long, Phantasia's entire body was trapped in the cocoon, while the magic circles around him were spinning faster and faster… Before then slowly moving to the center and fusing into one.
And as soon as all 3 magic circles fused into the one, the cocoon began growing in size, before then straight up just exploding, unleashing a blast of necrotic energy everywhere.
"…"
"…Huh… I guess he really did it." – said Thanatos calmly as the smoke caused by the explosion started clearing up, revealing Phantasia standing in the middle of the circle.
However, something was different about him.
His body in his humanoid form was much large compare to before, growing at least 0.5 meter tall.
As for his rotting flesh body… It was no more.
Or more exactly, it looked like it mutated.
Appearance wise, it looked like Phantasia's flesh and bones merged into one, turning both of them into one same thing, the same material.
His fingers and toes grew more sharper, straight up becoming claws, while his eyes became hollow just like a skeletons.
However, they were not empty.
No.
There was a green light inside of them that represented the wicked eyes of the creature.
[Race Change]
[Main race 1: Undead – Sub Race: Zombie <Human>] -> [Main Race: Lich Ascended]
"…"
"Yeah. It was still way too freaking anti-climactic." – said Maparapara.