Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:47:58 +0000 From: wayne unknown Subject: Vainglorious Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Dhampir Lesssons After we had satisfied our carnal urges, it had grown dark and my stats were back to normal. Ren said that in exchange for getting to fuck us, they'd need to provide us with their blood once a month. It was a weird requirement but the twins just shrugged and said whatever. As players we were effectively immortal, even if we died, we'd only suffer a 3 hour (RT) log out penalty & a loss in experience and resurrect in the temple of Helios. Ren told Tim to come close, we were all still naked and sweaty from the sex so Ren didn't have to worry about clothes getting bloody. Ren opened his mouth wide & I watched in fascination as his canines grew longer & sharper. The weirder thing was that I knew how to channel my mana into my body in order to alter my teeth the same way through our telepathic connection. [Transformation level 1 has been learned] Ren sank his fangs into Tim's neck and I could feel an echo of Ren's satisfaction as he drank deep of Tim's blood. After 30 seconds had passed, Ren let him go and Tim slumped onto the grassy floor. Tim said "Woo that felt kind of hot", his hard cock jutting out, leaving the demonstration of blood sucking somewhat comical. Ren said "Now you try." I used the knowledge I had gained from Ren through Paramour's bond and synergy to use my mana to transform my teeth into sharp fangs necessary to pierce flesh and drink blood. It was weird at first but once I sunk my fangs into Tom, it was hard to stop drinking his blood, it tasted so good. Luckily for Tom & me, Ren pulled me off before I accidentally killed Tom. [Vampirism level 1 has been learned] [Vampirism level 1: Drinking of target's blood restores 10% of target's total health] [Passive skill: Blood Digestion level 1 has been learned] [Blood digestion level 1: Acquire 1% of a target's stats when consuming 60% or more of the target's blood, gain innate abilities from target's blood] [You have gained Blood Lust] [Blood Lust: Passive skill that increases the desire for blood to be spilled. ] [You have gained Level 1 Fireball.] [Fireball: Creates a small ball of fire that you can lob at your enemies, damage is equivalent to magic power] [You have gained Level 1 Heal] [Heal: Restores target's health based on magic power] [You have gained 3 intelligence & 1 vitality through blood digestion] Vampirism & Blood Digestion were fascinating, it essentially turned players & monsters into walking elixir buffets & skill books. Afterwards we got dressed and headed into Ogre Forest to hunt. There were thousands of Ogres in the forest to hunt for experience & stats. We just had to make sure to stay out of the way of the other players, Tim's [Hawk's Eyes] allowed for us to move unimpeded. At night monsters were more troublesome to deal with as it was far easier to be ambushed in the dark. It was generally an unpopular time for hunting, except for the occasional hardcore player or during a training exercise for the army. Typically early mornings were the best time to hunt as monster levels were higher after a spawning slaughter. This area had been long discarded by most users who had already moved to the capitol in search of better quests and better experience. It was still better to be safe than sorry. We had no desire to answer awkward questions in regards to drinking monster blood or partying with a dhampir. I had gained night vision and enhanced senses from my conversion. [Transformation] allowed for me to sharpen my teeth and claws into deadly weapons. The Ogres that inhabited the forest near Vampire's cave had high strength but low agility and intelligence so they were good prey for players who specialised in range damage. I found them to be good punching bags as my strength was unnaturally high (for my level) from 3 months (GT) of doing the same quest for strength elixirs. I had gained 90 strength elixirs for free and had bought hundreds of other elixirs from the apothecary at a discount. I bought them from Jason who was the apothecary apprentice I was fucking. He had plans of opening up a shop in the capitol and he wanted me to be strong so that I could serve as his escort to the capitol when he finished his apprenticeship. With the four of us working together we would have no trouble dealing with level 60 Ogres. Typically I had to take them down one at a time when I hunted alone but with a group, it'd be easy to bombard them with attacks in quick succession and work through groups of Ogres. Ren said "Blood is the most important for a vampire or a dhampir as it increases stats & skills. It's also vital for gaining immortality. The quicker you learn all the blood skills the better it'll be for the both of us." It seemed like a strange comment but it had been a weird day. Ren was a bit intense, but there was no downside to learning some new skills. Tim used Hawk's eye (an archer skill that allows user to see distant objects as if they were nearby) to find us a solitary Ogre so Ren could teach me some more vampire basics. Ogres are 5 foot humanoid monsters with green skin and a violent disposition, their only useful skill is Blockade. An Ogre's basic skill that when activated reduced physical damage by 50% for 30 seconds at a time. The cool down was about 2 minutes. Tim found an Ogre roaming alone & Ren had me grab it from behind pinning its arms to it's side. Ren then dug his teeth into the Ogre's neck & without words I knew how the Ogre tasted & when Ren used Bleed & Concentrate, I got new notifications. [Bleed Level 1 has been learned] [Bleed: accelerates blood loss of a target by 10%.] [Concentrate has been learned ] [Concentrate: Blood volume is decreased by 10%] After Ren had drunk the Ogre dry, the Ogre was incapacitated, Tim finished it off with an arrow to the heart. He needed the experience the most. Ren explained "Making the Ogre bleed faster allows us to drain it faster & concentrate reduces the time necessary for blood digestion to take effect." "You're the master, you would know." I said with a smile. Ren gave me a small smile in return. "The next one is yours". We hunted for another solitary Ogre and I tackled it to the ground & bit into it's neck. This time I didn't need to be concerned for how much I drank. I used Bleed & Concentrate in quick sucession. [Blockade level 1 has been learned] [Blockade: reduce physical damage by 50% while active for 30 seconds, 2 minute cool down] Now that Ren and I both had Blockade, we could alternate between being the target's tanks while Tim & Tom provided range support. For a solitary Ogre, Tim would use a poisoned arrow to inflict ongoing status damage before it could use [blockade] to halve physical damage. Then I would grab it from behind, trapping it's arms behind its back long enough for Ren to bite it and start draining it's blood. Or I would simply attack one on my own attacking it with an aura blade before biting into it's neck For small groups Tim would use poisoned arrows to inflict poison damage while I attacked with sword while Ren attacked with earth magic to stall & damage the Ogres. Tim & Tom would use their ranged attacks to distract & damage Ogres while Ren & I fed on Ogres. As Ren and I both gained stats it made it easier to pin down and kill Ogres. We shared the spoils of the battle evenly between the four of us, (except I carried the Ogre corpses that Ren earned as Ren didn't have the spatial magic necessary for keeping corpses as he was a noob dhampir). After we had drained about 50 Ogres each, we needed to take a break to digest all the blood we consumed. It felt like I had a big thanksgiving dinner and I was feeling bloated and lethargic. Tim & Tom stood watch as Ren and I recovered. Ren taught me more blood magic while we waited . Tom was used for a minute as a demonstration tool. Ren scratched Tom and used [Bleed] to open up a decent sized wound before using [Clotting]. [Clotting level 1 has been learned] Clotting: uses mana to artificially stop bleeding. And the wound closed up good as new. Then Ren scratched himself & using mana coalesced the spilled blood into a floating ball of blood the size of a grape and launched it at a tree that promptly shattered and burst into flames. [Blood Missile level 1 has been learned] [Blood missile: infuses spilled blood with mana to create a dangerous projectile weapon. Requires 1% stats/blood to function, effects vary based on the strongest stat. 10% of total stat is converted into damage, 1 second duration] [Blood Mastery level 1 has been learned] [As a result of learning multiple blood magics you've gained minor control over all blood.] [Blood Mastery level 1: 10% control over blood, effectiveness of blood magic increases by 10%.] After an hour break, it was time to resume the hunt, with the improved stats, I felt invincible against the ogres and it was too easy to drain them of their blood. Tim and Tom both gained a level from hunting & killing hundreds of Ogres. I had gained a skill level for Bleed and Concentrate as I had used it every time I drained an Ogre. Bleed level 2: accelerates blood loss of a target by 20%. Concentrate level 2: Blood volume is decreased by 20% We agreed to meet up in about 6 RT hours or 18 game hours outside the vampire cave for another round of Ogre hunting. I swore Tim & Tom to secrecy. If other players knew that I had become a dhampir there would be problems. Ogres were good to hunt as you could sell their corpses to merchants for decent money. The Merchants would sell them to whomever would pay the best price based on the condition of the body. Typically they were bought by mana crafters who would convert their bodies to mana stones to then sell to blacksmiths for use in creating magical armors & shields that had physical damage resist. However Ogres weren't fun to hunt for the melee class due to their physical resistance skill & their high strength made them annoying for squishier classes like Mages. Some parties hunted Ogres exclusively for their distinctive mana stones. It was odd, I had learned [Heal] and [Fireball] from draining Tom's blood and gained [Blockade] from draining an Ogre of blood. Usually to gain an ability, you had to undertake a quest, or get a skill book or a spell book yet all I had to do was drain some blood. This was too easy, progress was so quick & addictive, I didn't want to stop but I had reached the limit of blood digestion, which only allowed you to drain 100 targets of blood a day. Ren warned me that the skills normally only lasted as the blood remained in the system and you could only drain a particular target once every month. However vampires did collect certain useful monster species in order to regularly make use of their abilities. If a vampire could level up an acquired skill it would become part of them even after all the blood was gone. It explained why vampires made for such unpredictable enemies as they could gain new abilities from their victims. The downside was that it was limited to humanoid creatures with blood which cut out the undead, a lot of beast monsters and plant monsters. Still OP as fuck though. In one night I had drained a hundred Ogres and gained more stats than I had from 3 months of drinking elixirs. An average Ogre had 200 Vitality 400 strength, 50 stamina 30 intelligence, 20 charisma 40 agility 30 dexterity Vampirism & blood digestion had certain limitations, I could only gain 1 stat for every 100 the target had, so I gained 4 strength and 2 vitality from every ogre. I could only drain 100 of a monster in a day and if I used blood missile level 1, I'd lose 1% of my stats for a single attack. When a vampire lost blood, they lost stats. Despite all the limitations I had gained 3 intelligence, 400 strength and 201 vitality in a single night. Ren had gained 4 vitality, 8 strength and 1 stamina from each of the Ogres as his blood digestion was level 2. I planned to drain more Ogres tomorrow night. Ren said that if we could keep up this pace for ten nights, my blood digestion would reach level 2 as well. My status page had undergone a drastic change. level 70 Main class warrior, specialisation swordsman, sub class Apprentice alchemist. Race: Dhampir Titles: Dhampir's Paramour, Pervert, Guardian 640 strength 210 dexterity 210 agility 53 intelligence 210 stamina 10 charisma 411 vitality Skills level 3 Aura blade level 3 herbcraft level 4 dismantling level 3 alchemy level 5 swordsmanship level 1 blockade Spells level 1 earth constructions level 1 rock break level 2 concentrate level 2 bleed level 1 blood missile level 1 heal level 1 fireball level 1 blood mastery level 1 transformation level 1 clotting passive skills level 1 vampirism level 1 blood digestion level 1 blood lust level 1 night vision level 1 enhanced senses Class Exclusive skills Warrior's health - vitality results in ten times the health warriors regeneration - vitality is restored ten times faster Swordsman damage - deals extra damage when wielding a sword level 1 identify (enemy) - warrior exclusive level 1 identify (item) - Alchemist exclusive The sunlight penalty had dropped from 80% to 79% overnight. Another month and I'd have the same sunlight penalty as Ren. With my conversion from human to dhampir, I could only be away from the cave during the night as the sunlight would weaken me dramatically and make me vulnerable from attacks by monsters & rogue player killers. Ren was better off as his sunlight penalty was lower than mine but as a mage his health was terribly low at the best of times. Once we were alone again, Ren mentioned that we should capture some Ogres tomorrow night so we could drain them at our leisure. I thought it was a little weird but Ren had been surprisingly cool about finding me being spit roasted by Tim & Tom so I thought it would be bad form to object to his weirdness. *********************************************** Remember to donate to Nifty to keep the all these stories going! http://donate.nifty.org/donate.html