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BS6 C27
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Class: Master of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact (Combination of Expert Mapmaker + Expert Cartographer + Blood Manipulator + Blood Shaper + Blood Melder, Additional Requirement: Owner of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact)
- Though rare there exist Classes that devote themselves to certain powerful unique artifacts, similar to Classes that revolve around particular magic weapons. This Class takes the unique artifact Unnamed Enchanted Artifact and permanently binds it to the one who has this Class. With it the artifact becomes part of them in a bond of magical symbiosis. Due to each artifact that triggers a “Master of” Class being unique, each “Master of” Class is similarly unique, requiring practice and discovery to find the true potential of the Class.
Class Skill: Mastery of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact
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Class Skill: Mastery of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact
- This Skill permanently binds the eponymous artifact to the user and unlocks abilities with said artifact beyond its use by another. This Skill also prevents the artifact from ever being removed from the user. This Skill costs a large amount of mana upon activating, which is automatic upon receiving the Skill and does not cost mana after the binding is complete.
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Kay read through the vacuous description with a frown. He’d been excited for the Class as an option and his excitement had been quickly sunk. The entire concept of the type of Class that had just been revealed to him was weird. How did it work with other artifacts out there in the world? He’d gotten lucky, since he created the item in question he automatically had the required Classes to get the tier five Class, but what about people who found their artifacts later on in life? Did the System account for that and allow tangential Classes? Why was such a Class tier five anyways? The Class as a whole was entirely focused on the artifact, unlike any other tier five Class he’d seen which worked as some variation of a combined focus of the Classes that made it up which magnified the whole based on the parts. These “Master of” Classes didn’t seem to match that pattern at all.
Really, all the new information did was tell Kay that there was still so much more in the world for him to discover and learn. He’d definitely be reporting this to Ahthia and Eleniah, but the Class wasn’t something he was interested in. The artifact he’d made was quite cool, but it was only a map at the end of things. An incredibly useful map that he wasn’t going to throw away or under-use, but it wasn’t going to slay vampyr and the effects of the map artifact didn’t synergize with the rest of his build enough to devote an entire Class Slot to a Class that was entirely devoted to the artifact!
As it was he was banking on the last Class option being a good one and if it wasn’t he’d have to decide between one of the Blood-Scrawl Class options. They were direct upgrades to the Blood-Ink variations that required more materials than just blood, and he wouldn’t get a Class Creator Title upgrade from Self-Possessed Mapper which meant no new Class Slot. That brought him all the way back around to deciding whether it was better to get two Classes that somewhat contradicted each other in order to get two more Class Slots and a bit more mana pushed into him or get one Class that combined the abilities of the other two into one sleek package.
It was really down to the last Class being better than the others or not, so he shrugged and pulled open the description.
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Class: Heart-Pulse Surveyor (Combination of Expert Mapmaker + Expert Cartographer + Blood Manipulator, Additional Requirement: Posses the Skill Domain of Blood)
- There are as many ways to see existence as there are beings that can behold it’s beauty, merely referred to as “senses” by so many species. To sense reflected wavelengths of light is sight, to sense the vibrations through the surrounding medium is hearing, to sense tiny particles of existence in a particular body part is smell, and the list goes on forever. This Class is for one who has unlocked senses beyond those of their physical form, using magic to see the world in a new way. Blood is life, life is to be, and to be is to experience. Experience the world through the flow of blood and see through the beat of each heart.
Class Skill: Sanguinelocation
Class Skill: Blood-Sight
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Class Skill: Sanguinelocation
- Echolocation is purposefully sending out waves of sound to detect how they interact with the world around them when they return to their source. Sanguinelocation is detecting the world is sensing the world through the pulse of blood and the beating of hearts. It is not hearing, it is not sight, it is it’s own magical sense that lets the user experience the world and gain information based on how blood interacts with existence. For a steady mana cost, the user may activate this Skill, activating a new magical sense that informs them of the world. The more blood that flows through the veins of living creatures the more detailed information the user gains about that area. Activating the Skill with larger amounts of mana, paid continuously, will expand the range of this magical sense.
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Class Skill: Blood-Sight
- This Skill and those similar to it are the purview of masters of their element, substance, or material, and accompanies Classes that grant new senses based on such. Wherever the material the user has mastered touches, they can see. For a large up front mana cost the user may see through any of their material that is exposed to light, within range, as if they were present. This Skill does not help the user process too many sensory inputs. Higher levels of this Skill will increase the range of the Skill.
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Kay fully gaped at the final Class for over a minute. It was broken. If he were speaking to his old friends back home about something like this appearing in a game he’d call it OP and either bitch about someone else getting it or cry in joy at getting it himself. He had no idea how two map Classes turned into a broken “see through Blood” Class, but he wasn’t about to turn it down. That Class was the exact kind of game changer he’d been hoping for. It would let him see through walls if there was blood anywhere that light touched, within whatever range he had, but still, and as long as there were living things with blood around he could make out the area around them. He could use this to spy on people, not that he was interested in that but it was worth considering, navigate the battlefield, avoid ambushes, find enemies that were fleeing, and so much more. If he activated Blood-Sight with his simulacra running around and fully pumped up his Lord’s Bloody Domain he could turn an entire section of a battle, or maybe the entire thing, into his own personal playground. This one Class would help turn him from a one-man army to a one-man calamity. That definitely outweighed the question of two Classes being maybe better than one.
Right as he was about to accept Heart-Pulse Surveyor, he paused. Not out of doubt or indecisions, but out of curiosity. The requirements to get Heart-Pulse Surveyor were a little too coincidental, and the extra Skill tacked on that seemed to be it’s own thing separate from the Class was a bright blinking beacon of “too good to be true” on it’s own. The System had said that it didn’t control anyone directly, it just incentivized them to do what it wanted. Was this more of the same? It’d allowed his original Oath to it so long ago to change his Class into Blood Manipulator because it thought having that Class back in the world might be useful against the vampyr, which were causing System corruption thanks to their eldritch origins. Now, when he was about to go to war against more of them and destroy their plans, which would likely result in even more System corruption if they succeeded, he was getting a sudden out of character power boost. That reeked of the System meddling.
Kay thought about it for a moment and then accepted it. So what if the System was meddling? He didn’t like the concept and it had led to some very agonizing moments in the past of him trying to figure out if he was just a puppet having his strings pulled, but it wasn’t like that anymore. There were always going to be more powerful forces than him out there and dealing with those forces and the effects they had on the world was just part of living. He was one of those forces to so many people at this point, was he pulling people’s strings like a puppet master, making them dance to his tune? He didn’t feel that way, and honestly, unless he really was working to remove people’s free will, did it matter? He had the same issue as so many others, his was just coming from an even higher level of power, and that’s where the racing thoughts, cursing the System, and trying to think of ways to get out from under its thumb came from.
It was all about control. With another being, person, or force limiting your options, or even just making you feel like your options had been limited, it could feel like you weren’t in control, but that was an illusion to hide the fact that you aren’t all powerful. No matter what Kay did, his choices were going to be restrained by something even if that something was just the basic laws of how reality functioned. He wasn’t a god to reshape anything he wanted, and there was nothing wrong with that. Wailing about feelings brought up by looking at the world with the illusion that he could do anything he wanted was silly and childish.
With a push of his willpower Kay accepted the Heart-Pulse Surveyor Class and amazed in the feeling of mana rushing into him once again, fortifying him and making him one step closer to whatever the end goal of the tier system was. His circumstances were even better than the people who looked up to him as their king, he was getting reward to do the thing he was already going to do anyways! His oaths and duties meant that the vampyr threat to the east couldn’t be allowed to stand, so if the System gave him more powerful Class options to deal with them, good. He’d take the power, crush his enemies, and go about with his life the way he wanted to.
The sheer lack of contact from the System was worrying though. He felt like he was at the point in it’s machinations that it could just tell him that’s what was happening, like it had done when it had sent him off to the Seramist Isles. It not getting back to him after that, or even during, and not receiving a reward for finishing that Quest had him worried that something else was going on, something bad. Sadly, without it telling him about any such thing, there was nothing he could do. His working hypothesis was that it was dealing with incursions elsewhere in the world and couldn’t devote processing power to talking to Kay, but what did that mean? Talking to Kay should take so little power that it could do it with the world literally ending right then, he assumed, so what was happening right then if it couldn’t even push a button to send him a Quest reward IOU?
At the end of the line of logic though, it didn’t matter. Kay would keep doing what he had to until everything was destroyed around him or his life eventually ended. He spent half a second debating using one of his new Skills from his new Class, but decided to wait on that. Eleniah would never forgive him if he tested out two new awesome Skills without her, and he could spend the rest of his break telling Ahthia about the new information he’d gotten.
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I suspect the bit about not being granted the ability to deal with lots of sensory input will be highly relevant... like switching it on will be overwhelming until he can figure out how to filter it down.
