Point out any grammar mistakes please, I read through trying to find them but I'm tired as hell rn.
#Disclaimer - A lot of yapping
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Looking through all the spells within my mind one instantly came to the forefront, it was from a game I used to play quite a lot, I even had multiple slots with hundreds of hours, it's Elden ring of course.
It was probably one of the most broken incantations in the game due to its high scaling and decently quick casting time.
Purely based off of visuals while cool it wasn't anything super impressive, well, that could be said for most things in Elden ring, while cool they weren't anything super flashy. That was reserved for the bosses of course.
"Knight's lightning spear." I said out loud, mostly just contemplating if it's the first spell I want to officially make a grimoire. I'm not counting the previous one since it's one online could actually use.
Well, for the most part, if someone else used it they'd probably just straight up die.
Like I said before, although the spell visually isn't anything too crazy, you generate and charge a lightning spear, alongside the spear six sigils appear behind you and once you throw the spear those sigils fire additional spears right after you throw the main spear.
However, the lore behind the spell could be used to make the spell far more impressive. Specifically the lore behind lightning in general.
Lightning in Elden ring isn't simply another form of magic but rather a primordial force wielded by the Ancient Dragons. The red lightning wielded by the dragons is the original and raw form of lightning, while the yellow lightning is a moddified version.
Hmmm, thinking about it now, instead of knight's lightning spear I could do one of the Ancient dragon lightning incants.
Two immediately come to mind, Ancient dragons lightning strike, and Lansseax's Glaive. Or… Placidusax's nuke. Though I doubt anyone could use that one, especially not to its full potential.
Leaning back in my chair it tilted back in its back legs as I rock it back and forth.
I'm really unsure of what I wanted to do, on one hand, knights lightning spear is a pretty grounded spell that would be helpful to anyone I give it to. On the other hand, the ancient dragon spells are cooler and would be stronger.
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You know what, I don't care, I'm going with the nuke as my first one, I don't care if it just sits on a shelf forever. My first one must be something grand beyond compare.
But…. An issue has arrived, incantations and spells In Elden ring aren't given chants, at least none we as the player see or use. Which is funny because their called incantations without having to incant anything. With the sole exception of the flame incantations of course.
Every incantation type is based on some God in the Elden ring world, golden order is the Erdtree, flame and giants flame is the one-eyed fell god, poison and rot is the rot outer god, flames of frenzy is the frenzy flame outer god. Yeah they weren't really given actual name or titles. At least most weren't, with the sole exception of the Formless mother of course, who was the source of bloodflame incantations.
There are a few more but I don't feel like naming them.
The point being that even though all incantations are supposed to be prayer's to these entities they don't have any true chants/incants.
So, I'll have to make my own.
While this isn't an issue by itself as I could easily make the chat the same way I did for Tione's spell, but I don't want to do that. That's a regular type of chant, incantations are supposed to be prayers, I want it to fit that style more.
However, lightning, especially Ancient dragon lightning isn't actually the same as the other types of incantations. The God who was the patron/ruler of the dragons during
Placidusax's time as Elden lord fled the world before the time of the Erdtree and the reign of Marika the Eternal.
We have no idea as to why it ran away but my own personal guess was that it saw the future of the lands between and wanted no part in it. Apparently it was a God presiding over time so it likely could see the glow of time and all that other jazz.
…Where was I going with this?
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Oh! Because the God no longer exists in the lands between and we could still use ancient dragon incants, that means the God likely wasn't the source of the lightning of the dragons. And instead it was a force the dragons could simply wield.
Which means lightning incants are less about prayers but rather more about harnessing the power directly by commanding it.
Well, at least that's my theory, since we do channel the lightning through the scales of an Ancient dragon.
It's weird.
Anyways, the point being that I want to combine these two things. The prayer like Chant, and the commanding of the power.
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Who am I talking to?
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'Oh Great Dragons, lend me your strength.'
'Grant me strength, Grant me power, Grant me salvation.'
'Through the might of the dragons I call you forth, lightning!'
'Surge, Surge, Surge, charge with the might capable of rending mountains and torching the sky's.'
'Become my strength, become my power, become my salvation.'
'Strike down my enemies with the great clap of thunder.'
'Oh Dragon lord, I call upon your sacred power.'
'I seek your might, I seek your mercy.'
'I wish to become your spear, o wish to become a weapon capable of felling the Gods themselves.'
'Surge, Surge, Surge.'
'Lightning! I call you once more! strike with the might of the Dragon Lord himself!'
"Cataclysm of the Dragon Lord."
The book I held glowed a bright red as I finished creating the Chant for the spell. Sparks of red lightning flew from the book, it arched across my desk zapping the wood and leaving several scorched spots across its surface.
'Well that's annoying.'
With one final intense glow the book closed itself and on its cover appeared a curled dragon holding a bolt of lightning.
Placing the book down I was hit with a bad feeling.
In the same instant I was hit with what I would imagine the heat of the sun itself feels like.
"Urrrg."
It wasn't really painful, just extremely uncomfortable.
The heat rolled around inside my body shifting my around my insides like a snake. It slowly traveled, cooling itself around each of my organs individually, I never really bothered learning where every single organ was, but right now I'm getting a very detailed feeling of where every single one was.
My breathing grew heavy and with each breath puffs of steam sizzled in the air.
"Haaaaa." Letting out a big breath just to distract myself with phenomena happening inside my body, I watched as my breath turned to steam instantly, and quickly dispersing into the air.
Though thinking about it, that's not how that should work at all but I'm not going to question it.
The snake light heat now encompassed my entire body, I could feel it coiling around each individual part inside me. It had fully settled and completely stopped its movements.
It stayed like that for only a couple seconds though.
"GAAAAK!"
Without any warning the heat squeezed, sending a burst of pain across my entire body but in that same instant it all vanished.
With that final squeeze the heat vanished and even the pain that came with the squeeze disappeared as quickly as it came.
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I mean I'm not going to complain or anything but I kind of expected that to be a bit worse that it was.
"Well whatever, let's take a small break"
Getting up I walk through the doors and was met with an empty hallway, but I could here quite the noise from down stairs so that's likely where everyone was.
Taking my time, I slowly descended the stairs and the noise only grew louder, much like the first day I got here many familia members were gathered in the large lounge space of the familia house.
Looking around I saw something that took me by surprise, Loki was sitting calmly.
"???"
My stride quickened, I was beyond curious on what she could be thinking about that got her serious in this kind of situation.
Like always, she sat in between Reveria and Ais, Lefiya also taking a spot right next to Ais.
Taking the Empty spot next to Reveria but before I could even open my mouth Reveria's entire body flinched away from me, she basically launched herself onto Loki to get away from me.
My shoulder had barely touched her arm.
"Okay? So what was that about." I said in complete confusion.
Eyes were instantly on us because of Riveria's completely out of character actions.
She slowly sat back up straight but making sure to be quite a distance from me.
Fixing her glasses she didn't even say a word but instead grabbed a cup that was filled with water and handed it to me.
"Put a finger in that." She said simply
Okay?
Doing what she said I placed a finger in the cup of water.
*hiss
The instant I placed my finger in the cup, the water sizzled and evaporated into steam.
"Ah." I didn't even really know what to say.
"Yes, now imagine my surprise when you brushed against me earlier." Riveria said with a huff.
Putting the cup down I wiped off the lingering droplets of water off my finger.
"Sorry, I couldn't tell my body was still running so hot, I can't even feel it." I said with a shrug.
Looking around I analyzed all the faces currently in the room, most were people who already know of my ability with only a few being new faces, but based off of their mana levels they should be at least level 2 meaning they'll be informed on me soon enough.
Most of the room had gone back to minding their own business at this point anyway, the noise returning to muffle my voice from those further away.
"I just finished making my first Grimoire and the spell I put in it is super strong, when I finished, I had one of those weird moments like when I finished making Tione's spell. It made my body super hot but I didn't know it was still at that temperature." I explained keeping my voice a little low just in case.
"That explains the changes in your eyes then." Loki said piping up, this entire time she was quietly analyzing.
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Before I could comment on that Lefiya began talking as well "Is that safe? From what I know the body isn't supposed to operate at those temperatures. Boiling water with a touch seems really extreme."
"Eh, probably. It's the effect of one of my skills so it's unlikely that it will negatively affect me." I replied with a wave, I wasn't too concerned. My heart was beating normally so it wasn't putting additional pressure on my body or anything.
"Now what was that about this eye business?" I asked.
"Your pupils changed, they're like a cats now" Ais said, replying for Loki.
"That's it?"
"Mhm." She replied with a nod.
Letting out a sigh I leaned back into the couch a little relieved that was all.
Glancing back over at Loki I remembered why I came over here in the first place "What's got our Goddess Loki thinking so hard?"
"It would be you of course." Riveria answered "Specifically about what we should be done once we go on the expedition in a few days."
Oh that, that indeed could be a problem. From what I remember they spent two weeks in the dungeon, a lot could happen in that time.
Freya hasn't done anything in the last couple days so there are three options, She hasn't noticed me yet. My soul isn't interesting enough for her to take interest. Or, she has noticed and is planning slowly and just hasn't done anything yet.
Hopefully I'm just not to her liking.
"If it's really that big of a concern I could just tag along on the expedition. I'd have to set up a bunch of defenses and auto responses beforehand though." I said, giving a potential solution.
"You're still just level 1 though, one hit in the lower floors and you could…" Lefiya began saying but stopped at the last word.
"Indeed, that's why I said I'd need to set up many defenses and automatic defensive and offensive responses beforehand." I Reiterated "Monsters have no resistance against my ability, so I can kill monsters that are far stronger than me quite easily, the issue lies in whether or not I can react to these monsters. That's why I need defenses and responses prepared so I don't have to react myself."
Lefiya stared at me with squinted eyes, she wanted to argue but didn't really know what to say.
A smile crawled across my lips as I watched her struggle to find what to say. Arguing with a socially axious person is really something else.
Shaking her head Loki waved off mine of Lefiya's little stare off. "We'll discuss it when you come back after tomorrow."
That seemed to end the whole issue right there, the discussion quickly changing to discuss my new spell. And my various ideas for spells alongside how my grimoires work. I had no real idea on how to answer that though, I just assume they work the same as me bestowing the spell.
Food was brought out and we conversed over dinner and everything eventually calmed down.
Only a few people were left in the lounge, some either heading out for whatever reason and others retiring for the night.
My main group of Loki, Reveria, Ais, and Lefiya still remained.
As we chilled I suddenly remembered something.
"Oh yeah, can I get a Status update? I want to see if anything changed with my status."
Loki glanced over at me her face indicating she was also a bit curious about if anything changed.
Reaching over into the small drawer table at the side of the couch Loki pulled out a paper and a needle.
"You just have those sitting around in drawers?"
"Of course I do, it's good to always be prepared." She responded casually.
We went through all the motions, removing my shirt and her dropping her blood on my back and then transferring the words to the paper.
{STATUS}
Name: Camellia Cindel
Level: 1
Strength: I42
Endurance: F328
Dexterity: H150
Agility: H114
Magic: S997
[Development ability]: None
[Magic]: N/A
Skills:
Mage of Origin: A mental and magic support type skill. It Grants the user perfect memory of any magic they've ever seen and allows for replication and creation of new types of magic. It protects the mind of the user from memory manipulation and anything that may cause the user to be forcefully rendered unconscious. As the Mage of Origin the user is immune to Ignis fatuus and has increased magical growth.
-Perfect recall
-Analytical sight
-Mental protection
-Congenital type Magic creation and bestowal
-Chant empowerment
-Magic enhancement
-Magic editing
Destruction Incarnate: A Magic type skill. It allows the user to use all magic that is destruction based but also making it so that is the only magic the user can obtain and use. As the user grows stronger they gain access to different types of destruction based magic.
-The Power of Destruction
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Well, that magic stat is looking scrumptious as hell. Everything else I not so hot, but I can't be bothered with them not gonna lie.
More importantly though is the new thing on both my skills, magic editing and a blank space.
"What's with the blank space?" I asked, I doubted it was Loki specifically erasing it like hestia did with bell.
Loki shrugged "No idea, what's on there is the same thing that's on the falna."
So it's some bullshit that'll probably come up later down the line. How reassuring.
If nothing else magic editing looks like it'll be interesting. I can already see how I can use that to create some truly interesting stuff.
I can already enhance certain aspects of spells by changing the chant, being able to edit properties of spells will make things even more riveting to explore.
Magic is just so fun!
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Hello everyone it's me Sentience/Snek/Oblivion. Back again with the late as hell update as I do. updates SHOULD be more frequent since I've paused Existence and won't be writing alongside this and Ophis anymore but also I'm going to college soon so uh that may also interfere with writing.
If I ever go silent for more than a month on both stories then yeah I'm either dead or college has me in a death grip.
Anyways, this chapter is short due to me not wanting to continue into the next part on this specific chapter, I want her going to her parents and the discussion with the expedition to happen in 1 chapter so if I added it to this one this chapter would probably go beyond 5k words, which yeah that's not crazy for this story I just didn't want to do it.
Her status is so out of whack lol, no strength to speak of, okay endurance, and barely any agility and dexterity. Then the magic stat is higher than most people ever reach in any stat.
She's not like the other reincarnated individuals who throw themselves into physical training and taking hits from monsters to get stronger. She has absolutely zero interest in doing that and will be doing things her own way, consequences be damned.
Have a good day or night. Cya'll in the next one.