C57: Mise En Place of Vilebloods
4/7/2026
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[Challenge mode activated] I continue walking as I read the prompt like usual.
[Select NG+ setting for Boss: Martyr Logarius. NG+1….NG+100]
"Can you at least spice it up so the fight has some more meaning? Like you did with Rom, giving me a whole divine rune for slaying her?" I ask as I already have a slightly lesser hatred for him for a few simple reasons.
A: he was an old comrade back in the fishing hamlet before I guess disappearing to here which gives him positive Karma
B: He is a member of the church which I now have a heightened desire to shred and burn to ashes which gives him massive Negative Karma.
C: he is an asshole from what I remember which gives him Positive karma as I can't fault him for it. I'm one too.
As such the situation comes down to me still hating his guts and ill happily play jumping jacks with his intestines but until then. Ill happily try to get more rewards from my sponsor, the System.
[The Spider had far reaching effects upon the world and was related to a Main questline. Martyr Logarius is limited to this area similar to the Cleric Beast or Vicar Amelia.]
"I don't like the examples you used, but I also don't hear a no from you" I goad the system on.
[Side Quest created: Beating up a Reknowned Asshole: Objective: defeat Martyr Logarius. The higher the difficulty, the better the rewards.
Reward 1: 200k echoes
Reward 2: 10x lesser skill shards (NG+10 or higher)
Reward 3: 4x greater skill shards (NG+20 or higher)
Reward 4: 3x random skill level up (NG+35 or higher)]
"The jump from 20 to 35 seems excessive for just a few skill level ups, don't you think?" I can't help but argue semantics with the system. It's one of my favorite pastimes.
[As the host obtains higher level skills or ascends lower level ones. The more energy they cost to level up.] The system provides a quick explanation that I can't find a fault with even if it is random which I hate.
"Alright, sure. Well, I already know I can easily beat level 30 bosses…well kind of. Rom was a special exception and technically so was the shadows of Yharnam. Ughhhh" I have to think long and hard but then I realize I'm an idiot and the choice is obvious as I punch in level 40.
[Adjusting World] The cold air around me blows heavily, rampaging into a thick storm of snow until I can partially see through the snow that Martyr Logarius' body begins to shift about. His skin filling in and moisturized to the point of looking younger. His tools shed rust and sparkling within the blood moon's light. The crown upon his head appears Regal and shiny as he gets up from his seat. The scythe comfortably rests upon his shoulder as he steps forward.
As the snow lessens, I can finally spot the castle behind Logarius but also his own new found youthful body. A sort of connection forms between us as we easily identify each other.
"Pathetic Vileblood. You shall fall this night just as so many others have in your attempts to claim the queen from me" Logarius begins to speak.
Yet I'm not listening as I feel that although he has gotten younger, he also became much more stupid as he completely forgot me. Or did I just never make that strong an impression back then…Just Gehrman's student. On the other side, im also lampooning about a certain something.
'bitch, according to your appearance, you're also a vileblood now. What are you getting so haughty about? Racist to yourself? you fucking retard' I insult in my head as the system provides me the information about the mutations which only confirms my insults or at least partially.
[Four Mutations have been provided due to the high grade level attached to the Boss: Prisoner's Curse(/Blessing), King of Illusions, Arcane Lord, Devil Blade. Three rare mutations and one epic mutation has been found. Increasing base rewards upon slaying the boss. Error: due to combination of mutations and previous skillset. Martyr Logarius has been renamed to: Traitorous Vileblood King Logarius]
I pause as I read the full list. I chuckle to myself as I decide to quip back at him. "I say, I must fall under the impression that the so-called Queen has a penis because why else would you be so vocal if you were not in fact chugging down her seed all the time. No shame of course. It's a respectable choice in this day and age" I decide to fuck with my enemies end first and foremost. Though it begs the question, how does he talk so much without hydrating? Did he find the Zohan's supply of fizzy bubbly? Shaking my head of these thoughts, keeping up appearances with a look that makes my enemy imagine of the scene I just described to himself.
Logarius pauses as if flash banged by words before he seems to have a look of recognition on his face before that too is smeared into a look of simmering rage.
"Ah, an old friend from long ago. Would you not be under the same impression as you have been quite the vocal one even back then. Though your current state shows you have been like this for quite some time. After so long, I realize that that stupid whore beside you which had long seduced my dear friend, Gehrman, had likely plunged her claws into you too."
"Sigh" "Negative Karma it is" I state and Logarius looks at me confused. "Negative what?" I soon vanish as my enhanced body far extends the regular distance of my normal dashes which means my Soliloquy of Power also gets a speed and distance boost which allows me to easily arrive before the boss. Saw Cleaver in my right hand, Tontritus in my left. I swing with my right hand but 'young' Logarius is no slouch as he swings his scythe to block my blade.
BANG zzzzz. "Ack"
As the scythe comes in contact with my weapon, Logarius is shocked to find that my tontritus is now in my hand hand, already in its 'active' state of shock which passes through to his hands and while it stops there due to the bosses gloves, it still provides a hefty shock. Especially as all the weapon echoes come in one after the other to deliver extra shocks to him.
Logarius is sent sliding backwards but is fairly unharmed, I had primarily aimed at his weapon anyways but I now know what the mutation of Devil Blade was with how hard that scythe is.
As for how I pulled off my trick. I had initially planned to strike from two ends but I saw that with how fast Logarius reacted, he was in a position to block both attacks and thus I had pulled my left hand back a bit to undershoot and simply dropped my weapon.
Of course I only dropped the now shock active Tontritus, the saw cleaver went to my inventory only to reappear in my left hand when I went through with the attack that 'he' blocked. The saw cleaver keeping the scythe in place against the butt of it while my tontritus shocks the enemy in place before weapon echo and shatter echo go forth and blast away at him.
"That was certainly an impressive blow. Seems you achieved a thing or two while I was away. Though you aren't the only one who learned a few neat tricks. I'd say, I came out on top in that encounter" Logarius begins to speak as he recovers from when he was sent flying.
I'm initially confused by his words until I feel blood shoot out like an explosion and flowing out quickly from my neck and find that he has his own little weapon echo or aura blade type thingy that he used to extend his reach and cut my neck whilst moving his scythe to block my right hand.
I cover my throat with my left hand, staunching the wound a bit, while the tontritus disappears from my right hand for a second so I can heal. The wound mostly closes except for a small bit which, according to my status, shows a completely new effect that enables long term slow bleeding.
[Cursed Injury: a grave injury that probits complete cleansing without continuous usage of healing blood. Effect can be weakened until the injury naturally heals]
'Such a bs status but I guess this is the other aspect of devil blade which I now know about' I rant to myself as we both recover and he even begins to monologue to himself, I pop up the system and buy a skill that I had my eye on for a while but didn't meet the requirements until I got SoP but at that point, it was all but flavor text.
Now, it's funny and funny is good when screwing with an equally annoying enemy.
[Mirage Steps: Whilst dashing, leave an afterimage of yourself behind halfway through the distance of the dash. Greater flexibility available with higher stats and greater level.]
Long ago, I had fantasized about this skill as it reminded me of Killua from Hunter x Hunter. Of course I relate more to the original which was Kurosaki Ichigo when he goes into his original bankai in his fight against Byakuya.
That suits my style far more as I rely on high speed movement to attack. Yet I still wasn't at a level where I could do this naturally with my speed so I bought the skill. It was fairly cheap, only 15k echoes as it was available to me from the very start but firstly I was too poor to afford then I was too lazy to care.
"Now I shall show you the full extent of my power" Logarius obnoxiously proclaims before I kick things into high gear, fulfilling his words myself.
Vhooom, I begin to needlessly spam SoP all over the place as I begin my own showcasing as I got tired of Logarius Monologue. I am beginning to sincerely believe that even though he is some sort of Traitor King, he is sucking weenis belonging to the queen to not be parched at all from all this talking. To match his power, I begin my own monologue.
"Let's start off simple, Karma is a universal construct based on the premise of Yin and Yang, Good and Evil. It is a relational situation where doing good will bless you in turn with good fortune and bad into bad fortune for you and those you care about. It is a hope that everybody is not bound to a concept such as fate when they can shape their own destiny through Karma."
"Which brings us to you"
"Your a man, raised by the church, which means you are a fatherless bastard as he ran off to who knows where and fucked a random prositute to sire you. "This is positive karma as you were dealt a bad hand from the start, it evens out your past life's negative karma"
"In turn, you became a priest of the church. Where you used healing blood to help cure people, which originally netted you positive karma until you continued doing this even after finding out that the blood was turning people into beasts. Thus negative karma."
"As there is the fact that you were a priest for a few years which automatically labels you as a Pedophile, thus a whole slew of negative karma with each action you have done until you meet me here."
"FUCK you" Logarius finally has enough of my karma bullshit as he blows up, trying to cut through my various afterimages but while i was monologueing, I was collecting a few easy levels of the skill. Allowing me greater control over where the mirages appear and how many. Though for now, I'm limited to just three in a single dash.
Sometimes I cluster them together while other times I have them as spaced out as I can. Making it so Logarius is surrounded by images of me whilst being casually insulted in a debacle of philosophy.
As I reach level 6 with the skill, I begin my counterattack on him, starting out small with a few cuts here and there. Of course, I can't keep up this for too long myself as the cursed injury on my neck is still going on, draining me bit by bit. Only my super long health bar has anything to say about that. And of course the tiny bits of regen from my weapon gems.
While my stamina is god awfully impressive, it's not limitless even if I regen it super fast as well. I'm forced to stop a few times to rest up which I try to take advantage of my afterimages by standing in their positions or going forward and then backstepping to create a sense that the third 'clone' was actually me instead of being the 2nd of the three which was actually me.
Though the traitor king begins to move faster as he shoots up into the air sometimes to dive bomb me or my clones. There are also the magical skull blasts sent at me which use the multitude of pillars in the surroundings but those are gradually breaking so it's not a long term solution, but they do also give me the momentary breaks I need.
To try something new, I took out a special little whistle I got from Voltr and blew on it while I was zipping around quickly near the traitor.
"What? What are you doing up here?" Logarius looks at me with confusion on his face as we are well high above the castle, until he notices that I'm pinching the tail of his coat. He had zipped up into the air to dodge the oncoming giant snake but what do you know, im there with him.
I did not fully expect this to work, mostly thinking his speed would have simply ripped his outfit apart from my high strength yet here we are, ripe for the taking. I swing my tontritus at him but he blocks that. This releases me from my grip on him and I begin falling.
"AGGHHHH" Though im not alone as with my hand free and body repositioned accordingly, I had swung with my newly equipped left hand and cut off Logarius' own left hand with my saw cleaver.
I noticed this a while ago but Logarius is right handed like me. He uses his left hand to hold his scythe steady so that he can show force with his right. So I broke the balance.
Clang clang clack.
His scythe falls with a few bounces before settling down and I arrive on the ground shortly after. My body quakes all over but thankfully I stay in one piece with nothing broken due to a mix of my silver cat reflexes skill and my perpetually self regenerating body bestowed by the dream.
[Silver Cat Reflexes has leveled up: Level 2->level 3] I wave the screen away as what was unmentioned was that with my jumping leveling up in the dungeon. I tried to speed things up there by bunny hopping through it. Sure I hit my head a few times as I perfected the technique but that is how jumping got it's level as well as one into the silver cat skill.
Back to the fight. "Hey there buddy, you need a hand?" Sure I lost more than half my health bar from the fall but that will grow back or at least heal up. Logarius on the other hand, well, he lost his hand. I picked it up and waved at him… with him. I speak to him mockingly before said hand bursts into flames and turns to ash in a second.
"Oops, all out of stock. Try again tomorrow?" I shrug with my arms raised like 'what am I gonna do about that?'. Logarius charges at me, trying to reclaim his weapon while spawning more explosive skulls towards me as well as swiping his remaining hand into aura blades of arcane.
Unfortunately, I already tapped the scythe with my foot and transported it to my inventory.
He has a look of shock on his face as I easily dodge away. His hand gone, his scythe stolen. Me grinning like the asshole I am.
"Moving onto our second lecture. Scythe wielding. Did you know that historically, scythes were used to harvest crops. They probably used it similarly to you. But you're no farmer. You don't harvest, you slice, and dice and serve a mean chiffonade. This means to better utilize the scythe, you spin."
I demonstrate the technique by bringing the scythe back out and utilizing it with gusto. Swinging widely and wildly in a dance-like motion that delivers cut after cut as Logarius tries to trap me with exploding skulls or various tendrils of Ebrietas. who knows where those have been.
I dodge my going up into the air myself before using my own afterimage that spawned just behind me and with a tiny bit of solidness to kick away. Of course I haven't forgotten to continue my demonstration as I continue to spin the scythe but treating it more like nun-chucks rather than dancing myself as that confused me for a moment.
Logarius seems to have had enough of my bullshit once again as he tries something new again and releases a dark cloud that explodes out and unfortunately hits me as I was still midair, and just about to touch the ground to roll away.
I feel my mind assaulted by needles of arcane nature which I am able to weaken with my own cosmologist skill but it's limited in nature since I never encountered this attack before. As a result, my health drops into the 'red' as im forced to retreat and summon out my solar halo to help reduce my spiritual damage from this attack. Im especially in danger as I still bear the cursed injury debuff but im pleasantly surprised by something.
The Solar Halo skill does reduce the damage of the mind needles and helps me recover from said injuries too but it also negates the cursed aspect of my neck injury. Allowing me to finally heal all my wounds but the pillar I hide before shatters into dust.
I dashed out of the way again as I decide to up the ante. I turn off the halo and take a deep breathe.
"Fighting Evil by moonlight."
"Winning love by daylight. "
"Never running from a real fight"
"She is the one named Sailor Moon"
"What the hell is wrong with you!!!" Logarius screams as blood seeps out of his eyes and ears from my so-called 'terrible' singing. But I'm of the belief that my song was just so good and tear jerking that it turned blood jerking. I only hope that nobody will take that literally and ask me to sing to them in bed.
The boss is forced to stop in place as he tries to enhance his own body with his arcane energy to recover as well as resist anymore of my singing yet in doing so, stopped attacking. Allowing my to close the distance as I stopped messing around with the scythe and simply kept attacking him until he finally entered the halfway point of the fight.
Logarius begins to surround himself with a massive influx of energy but I position myself behind him and heavy strike his back, leading to a riposte. The initial damage chunks out a huge part of the Traitor kings health.
Pew. Logarius then gets up and tries to swipe at me with his hand but a quick shot from my pistol and he goes down again. This time, I go for the soul as I feel that I have dealt enough psychological damage to my enemy to stop him from properly thinking. Be it physical pain, my singing, the loss of his arm and weapon. Logarius has been losing a piece of himself throughout the entire fight and now he shall lose his soul.
Since im at his back, his only way to shake my off is with his arcane attacks but my shadow mastery and the barrier of chaos step allow me to essentially meet his attacks with my own.
Bit by bit, I extract the soul. While Martyr Logarius' body has returned to youth due to the vile blood flowing through him. His soul is the opposite and has only received minor benefits, primarily due to the arcane knowledge he possesses.
His means that my venture is much faster than most other bosses as he is the most 'human' boss of them all. A simple change in faith caused him to evolve so much that he in truth, did not change at all. His skillset simply reverted to his youth and he fell under the impression that he got stronger when he only got 'sturdier'.
His studies into the arcane had too limited his original physical prowess with his scythe which was why I was able to treat him like a dumb student.
As for why this 'Arcane Lord' has only been spamming the same 2 or three abilities this whole time. That is due to a limitation of his environment. He could have transformed his aura blades into flying saw blades but as he never could imagine these as 'projectiles', he can't see himself using his magic like that.
Similarly he couldn't create spikes emit from the ground or create a bubble around himself to make a barrier or around me to trap me. As such, this 'Arcane Lord' title is wasted on him as he at most got stronger spells of what he already had but since im superior in all traits except magic, I can easily suppress him.
As such, time flies by and soon enough I pull out the soul before smashing it with my saw cleaver. Logarius collapses to the ground once he had lost his soul but that at most turned him into a vegetable, only when it was shattered did he permanently die.
"Whew" I blew a breath of relief that my plans all worked out. I certainly need to work on strengthening my skills to fight better instead of spreading out my skills further from now on but the results certainly speak for themselves in this regard.
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