Aldrich had always wondered what was the nature of RECORD.
What was the reason for its existence? What was the underlying principle of its working? Why the color of the notifications felt sotis blue and sotis green was also a question that he thought about often.
So when the sudden notification of ERROR, in nacing red, surfaced in front of him, he couldn't take his eyes off it. Aldrich never believed that there was any being in the world who was truly impartial until the RECORD presented itself to him. So, for it to show ERROR to him could only an one thing.
Aldrich looked at the red hue of the notification vanishing after it had flashed three tis in front of it. And a series of notifications appeared in its place.
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Anomaly detected in the System
Scanning Drear's Record
Drear is found to have tempered with Attributes using Unnatural Lifeform in the Dungeon
Penalizing Drear
Warning: All Active, Passive, Item-specific Skills will be 50% less efficient
Warning: Rewards and ExP gained from Crawler will be halved
Warning: All Titles are invalid
Warning: Further use will cause a gradual incrent in the penalty
]
"This"
This was a complete and utter nightmare.
Aldrich had theorized that if RECORD truly worked as a system, then it must have a set of principles according to which it governed all the Stats. And like any other system, it would prioritize eliminating any flaw or error which could cause it to produce unexpected results.
The three words Anomaly, Tempered, and Unnatural Lifeform kept repeating themselves to him. It didn't take long for him to realize what had changed since his last raid. The Shadow Homunculus had eaten the Devil's Oldest Change, which granted him the ability to transfer his Attributes values from one to another. And then, it had sohow evolved into a real intelligent being, Sha.
"Aren't you a cute one"
The coarse tallic voice attracted Aldrich's attention, and he saw the Crawler looking down at him from afar.
" I have been guarding this place for 10 raids continuously. Drears like you co full of themselves, but never alone. The level of your ignorance and selfish pride is even a step higher than the worst I have seen."
Aldrich could have analyzed too many things from that sentence if the change in the Crawler's Stats had not captivated his eyes.
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Record of 'Lord of the Woods' Basajaun
Status: Healthy
Level: 32
HP: 1950/1950
SP: 2085/2085
MP: 1400/1569
Rank: Viscount
Attributes -->
Strength: 120
Defense: 130
Agility: 75
Vitality: 80
Perception: 70
Correspondence: 83
Active Skills -->
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Passive Skills -->
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]
For the first ti, Aldrich couldn't see the entire Stats of any Crawler. The Skills' nas had beco blurry and gibberish. It did nothing but prove Aldrich's guess that the reason he could see others' Stats was because of the Passive Skill, Shared Vision.
Aldrich had just taken a perfunctory glance at the Crawler's Stat. Otherwise, given his photographic mory, he would have rembered the Active and Passive Skills. But Aldrich didn't get to feel the regret for long.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Dozens of booming sounds made Aldrich look around and he saw the galiths had again turned into Cannons at so point. The Mana cannonballs, like a laser, ca rushing towards him along with the mockery-filled voice of the Viscount Crawler.
"Oops! I forgot to ntion they can fire twice."
Aldrich didn't have the ti to think about the cunningness of the Crawler and as he had already asked Sha to turn into a different Item. The use of penalised gaton Crusher seed insufficient to thwart all those globs of Mana again. The Buster-Sword in his hand vanished and the vein from the mask that had reached towards the palm of his hand went towards his back instead.
As the vein blood, two batlike chanical wings appeared on Aldrich's back. This was among the plethora of Items that Sha had eaten in the last six months.
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Item: Wings of Bat-Lord
Type: Weapon
Rank: Rare
Durability: NA
Minimum Usage Condition: Agility 60
Description: Provide Batlike flying capabilities to Drear, Agility 10
Warning: Because of the lack of skills of the maker, Item has lost its Item-specific Skill
...]
At any other point in ti, Aldrich would have considered it a worthless weapon. But the lack of Item-Specific Skills ant he won't have to use his penalized All-Proficient Skill anymore. Which made this Item an excellent source of additional Agility.
Thap! Thap!
Aldrich flapped the wings and flew up. The yellow laserlike cannonballs changed their trajectory to follow him. Aldrich skillfully maneuvered himself in the air, dodging many of them, but it was only a matter of ti before one of them hit him. Aldrich knew of the dire circumstances he was in, but there was a smile on his face. Unseen by the Crawler, he took out a surgical knife and threw it in the air.
He made a roundabout turn in the air, barely dodging two of the Mana cannonballs, and headed towards the towering Crawler. The 30 ft tall Lord of the woods was playing with his crown, watching Aldrich getting chased by the yellowish streak of lights. As Aldrich dropped towards the sky, the Crawler let out a hearty laugh.
"Haha! You aren't the first one to try that."
The dozens of cannonballs were only a few inches away from Aldrich as he neared the Crawler. The thrown knife had fallen in the range of Aldrich's Divine Sense and he had already marked it. Although the effect of the two Skills that Aldrich took pride in had halved, it was enough for him to do what he did next.
Aldrich and Crawler's eyes t and words escaped Aldrich's mouth before he could collide with the behemoth.
"Change. Target Lock."
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The Skills Change and Target Lock are under Penalty
Change: Transfer 35% of any Attribute to another Attribute
Target Lock: 15% incrent in Agility while dashing in the 'Marked' target's direction
]
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Agility: 204 ( 10 98 26)
Perception: 182 (-98)
]
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