A water elental inside a body of water is invisible by default. Dissert on the subject, one thousand words at least.
My answer would be one word only, though. "Mostly."
Because a water elental is made of pure water, most of the ti. There was so refraction at the edges and in so angles more than others. If you looked carefully, you'd see a blur, a shimr. If you aligned it perfectly, a rainbow as my body worked as a prism. That's assuming there was light to refract. I swam toward the warm reef on the other side of the birthing sandbank and paused as I got a notification.
For creating one new species and reviving another, you added these two to your {Progenitor Matriarch} Perk.
Elf[star]: The royal bloodline of the elves, regarded as the first elves to ever walk on Yznaria.
Prismatic Lamia: Imbued with nine elental affinities, the prismatic lamia excels in magic. They can give birth to either other prismatic lamia or any other combination of affinities.
Dafuq? Did my little stunt work this well? And what is a prismatic lamia? A snake-woman designed by Lisa Frank? I had to know but not now. My mother wasted one month of her life caged. I had to get her out.
I would like to think I was in my elent but that was a lie. I was in Apricot's elent. She was the one good at this skulking thing. I was afraid. How would mom be? Wounded? Scared? Sad? Did they torture her? I wanted to live a quiet life away from tragedy, for once. Why was the world so cruel to ?
I ca across a couple of fish-rmaids. They swam quietly, their many fins doing the job of steering their body as their vertical caudal fins swished to and fro. They had pink in their skin and fat under their cheeks. That malnourished debuff vanished too.
I knew how much food they took. I felt a heat climbing up my chest. The color red stained my sight for a mont. The girls I once was told to kill them. {Force Binding} on one, {Shadow Warp} then {Assassinate} the other. Finish the one bound before she could break free. Fast. Clean. In less than a minute, these two would pay for...
What did they do?
Other than living, trying to survive in these trying tis, and maybe listening to an asshole of a mollusk demigod, what were their cri? They killed my sisters, but so did the latter onto them. Yes, I killed those in the ambush, but that was not preditated murder.
I felt bad about killing them and that was... liberating. No. The one that had to die was the Kraken's herald.
With {Grandmaster T'ai chi ch'üan}, I could see the flows of energy. Two in particular were very strong. Divine in nature, they led deeper into the reef. I followed it, slinking past the ever-growing number of rmaids swimming around sedately. They had not a worry in the world.
I heard Nenandil in my mind.
I smiled. It was good to hear from her again,
I swallowed so bile,
the fairy ntally rolled her eyes.
I swam next to the still injured squid. She was bleeding from a thousand wounds that wouldn't heal. "Hey, Kraken. Let try and heal you."
"It's useless. I tried it myself," The massive squid moaned (as in lant, dammit). "Healing magic won't work."
"I think I can heal the wounds I caused. I feel so. Let try."
I used {Spiritual Healing} on her. I didn't have the fourteen million SP required to fully heal the divine mollusk but I could staunch the bleeding and ease the pain.
She quivered with relief but didn't thank . Leviathan nodded his dragon head. I think he was smiling. Hard to tell. I had very little peaceful interactions with either dragons or divine beings to learn how to read their expressions.
"Okay. I'm going to pick up my mother, you two gather the rmaids. We have a reef to regrow."
I transford into a water elental and dashed toward Nenandil. I checked my unallocated Exp. I had thirty-two point six billion Exp that would beco three million if I ranked up now. It wouldn't even push to level eighty-one. I refrained from ranking up now. It would be better to use them as quests. I could hand out more than three hundred million Exp in quests using {Royal Order}. It might be the key to heal the rift between both tribes.
The rmaids guarding them were poking at a sphere of ice with their spears. I curbed the angry impulse to just murder them and instead tried my new toy.
"You there, rmaids. I order you to leave this place and rejoin your sisters at the reef. I offer this as a quest to you."
Contested Charisma check won.
They saw only a rmaid-shaper blur but were compelled to obey the {Royal Order}. The Exp bonus was as good as killing a monster their level and without the risk of death. The twelve guards went away. I didn't even look at the Exp cost to issue these quests.
One they were gone, Nenandil crossed the ice as if it wasn't there. "Damn, girl. Look at you, all grown up!" She grinned.
I dove and hugged the tiny fairy, "Good to see you too, partner. How's our prisoner?"
Nenandil prepared to snap her fingers and maybe bring the ice down but she stared at , "You might want to fix those weird titles before."
She was right. I hid my titles.
"Better," she snickered and snapped her fingers. The ice vanished, revealing my mother in the cage. It was made of broken reef tied with algae. She wasn't hard but it was impossible for her to break out of there without alerting the guards. The bindings held the coral facing inward and without a tool she coudn't reach them.
"MOM!" I shouted and barreled toward the cage.
"Arista! You're alive!" She whimpered and cried.
I tried to grin but the saltwater got into my eyes, "Of course I am. Nenandil is my familiar, she'd vanish if I died. Now, I bestow upon you a quest. Get out of this cage and hug your daughter."
I an, I had a hundred billion Exp budget to spend on quests, it would all be lost on the rank-up (it would still be worth 3 levels, but big deal). Divided by a hundred, it was still a lot of Exp. I hoped enough to pacify the reef. With so ntal gymnastics, I split my order into two separate quests. One to get out, and another to hug . Mom's quests cost three and a half million each. She was level forty-seven.
She laughed and then gasped as she probably read the notification. I handed her a knife.
"Hands?" Mom asked.
"I got a lot more surprises for you. Cut the kelp and get out."
She got out and gasped, "It was real. hundred-six thousand! How?"
I reached out with my arms, "Hugs first, explanation later."
The curtains closed for this act. Let have my mont.
With the rescue part of the mission behind , I spent my Skill Points before the window to do so closed. I raised {Dodge} to Grandmaster 90 for 175 points. Then I did the sa to {Backstab} with the other half of my Skill Points.
You gained the Perk: Master Dodge (rare): When you fail to dodge, you [Skill Level /2]% chance to halve the damage.
You gained the Perk: Grandmaster Dodge (very rare): When you dodge an attack, the attacker is staggered by 0.2 seconds. This interrupts chained attacks and lowers the accuracy of the next attack by the sa enemy by 50%.
You gained the Perk: Master Backstab (very rare): You deal double damage when your Backstab actually hits the target's back.
You gained the Perk: Grandmaster Backstab (ultra-rare): When you backstab a target capable of becoming unconscious with a blunt attack, you can choose to forfeit all damage to render the target unconscious for 6*[Base damage Sum of Multipliers] minutes.
I got so great news from mom. Since the quest reward ca from my pocket, {Boosted Exp Split} tripled the award. That ant my Exp transfer efficiency with the quests was one to thirty-three, not to a hundred like I thought. That prompted to spend two Perks finishing two Exp series.
Improved Exp Split V (very rare): When splitting Exp between a group, you treat the group as if it was 67% smaller.
Champion's Spoils V (ultra-rare): If you win a challenge, you gain 205% more Exp.
I vowed to leave five Perks as my rainy day fund. It's been so ti since the System spent my Perks automatically to save my life and I think I might need it again in the future, with two demigods angry at . That left with twelve Perks to spend.
You purchased the Perk: Extra HP I (uncommon) You gain one extra base points of HP per level.
You purchased the Perk: Extra HP II (uncommon) You gain two extra base points of HP per level.
I never bothered to pick these before, but now I needed survivability. How was it again? Faster (sea)horses, aged booze, and... bigger resource pools.
You purchased the Perk: Body & Soul (ultra-rare): Add half your Endurance to determine your SP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Body & Magic (ultra-rare): Add half your Endurance to determine your MP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Agile Soul (ultra-rare): Add half your Dexterity to determine your SP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Agile Mana Circulation (ultra-rare): Add half your Dexterity to determine your MP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Mind Over Soul (ultra-rare): Add half your Mind to determine your SP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Mana Control (ultra-rare): Add half your Mind to determine your MP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Wilful Soul (ultra-rare): Add half your Willpower to determine your SP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Mana Compression (ultra-rare): Add half your Willpower to determine your MP pool.
You purchased the Perk: Coral Singer (very rare): You can spend MP and SP to nurture, heal, and grow coral. The effect scales with your musical ability.
You purchased the Perk: Coral Shaper (ultra rare): You cannot be hard by contacting living coral. You can use your Coral Singer ability to shape coral.
For the last two slots, I picked so racial perks of the Pale Dolphin-rmaid. The forr was a requirent of the latter.
Level 80
Strength: 18 29 / 27 - Dexterity: 10 31 / 27 - Endurance: 24 31 / 27
Mind: 24 31 / 27 - Willpower: 24 29 / 27 - Charisma: 8 29 / 27
Magic: 24 29 / 27
Ego: 24 29 / 27 - Luck: 8 34 / 27 - Soul: 24 29 / 27
HP 4,449,120 (2,256 HP/s)
MP 2,777,268 (301,338 MP/h)
SP 1,488,227 (91,584 SP/h)
Seventeen of these Attribute bonuses were from the Class and didn't count for the big hundred. Not to ntion the twelve in all physical because my tail was a real dolphin's.
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