My dad died when I was fifteen. Multiple gun shot wounds. He worked for the local organized cri syndicate, or the mafia as he called it. No one told how he died other than it was gun shot wounds, and I only knew that because the coroner had identify the body.
Which is kind of crazy to have a fifteen year old identify his dad's body, but that's what happened. The mafia adopted after that. Technically, Johnny "The Jon" Jaunderson adopted , but it was more the whole mafia that did it rather than just him.
They trained in how to pick locks, run scams, and shoot a gun. They even taught basic self defense. Well they paid for to take self defense classes in different disciplines. They said at least one of them should work.
They didn't personally know much self defense other than shoot the guy shooting you, but they didn't want walking around with an unregistered fire arm as a teen, so they settled for the classes.
I sat in on deals with other cri syndicates. Johnny always told them I was his son and he was "teaching the ropes." Honestly, I think he just liked having soone in those etings who didn't want to kill him. Soone who would watch his back no matter what.
Eventually, I rebelled as all teens do. I joined a band and toured around, sleeping in a van or the back of bars. They caught up to eventually. They didn't have any hard feelings.
They didn't want sleeping in vans anymore though. So they put up in an apartnt until I could make my own money. Which basically ant, until I got tired of the asly allowance they gave and finally turned back to cri so they could take into the fold again.
I never did though. I had been playing a show the night that Victoria turned . I was on drums. I left through the back of the bar into an alley. That was when she 'attacked' .
She pushed up against the wall and got down on her knees. She started to unzip my pants, but I stopped her. I said, "You're worth more than this. You don't need to do that to get my validation. You are valid." That was when she kissed , and the rest is history.
I had assud she was just a groupie debasing herself to get my attention as a musician she admired. It hadn't occurred to at the ti that she had been trying to suck the life essence out of my, uh, dick.
When I got to the top of the hill, two tall multi-story buildings lood over on my left and right sides. As I looked closer, there were archers positioned on several layers of balconies aiming right at .
"Stop!" A man said. "I assu you're looking for ."
[Main Objective: Defeat the Daimyo and rescue your parents]
There was an elderly couple behind the man, who I assud were my 'parents'. Which ant he was the Daimyo.
"I'm going to defeat you… guy," I said, trying to play the character in the story of this ga.
"You don't even know my na? It's Nobuhiro," he said proudly.
"That won't be your na when I'm done with you," I said, trying to sound threatening.
"What will it be then?" He said, confused?
"Nothing. Because you'll be dead," I said.
"Oh. I guess that makes sense," he said. "But not so fast! Let's see you deal with my archers first. They'll put so many holes in you that you'll… have a lot of holes in you after they do it."
"Yeah, that made sense," I said sarcastically.
I looked up at the archers aiming at and prepared to react the mont one of them shot at . They all loosed a volley at at the sa ti. I dove to the side, but by the ti I got back up, they were already shooting more arrows at .
I dove into the grass again and again but they didn't get tired or run out of arrows. So I did the first thing I could think of. I jumped up to the second floor balcony of one of the buildings to take out the archers in close combat.
Instead of that happening, I jumped so high that I sailed way above the second floor balcony. I landed on the fourth floor balcony out of view of most of the archers, except for the ones on the fourth floor balcony of the building I was on and the one across from it.
I spun to dodge an arrow just as the archer in front of loosed it. Then I grabbed him by the collar and threw him over the balcony. He landed with a thud and didn't move.
Trying to asure out my jumping power better this ti, I jumped to the fourth floor balcony of the building across from . I turned my jump into a kick in the chest of the archer on that balcony and then picked him up and hurled him off too.
There was only one archer per balcony. I jumped from balcony to balcony tossing dudes onto the ground below. When I got to the second floor balcony, realizing I couldn't toss them off to kill them, I ford a blood sword and chopped their heads off.
Since I had a height advantage, I leaped from the second floor balcony at the Daimyo and perford an overhand strike with my sword. He put his sword up to block but the combination of my downward strike and Vi infused blood sword caused my sword to cut right through his and through his body, bisecting him in half.
The left side of his body fell away from the right side and blood sprayed, covering and my 'parents'. They hugged and started crying. Especially my 'mom'.
[Congratulations! You have completed the level "One Night in Edo"]
[You have completed a secondary objective. You will receive an additional reward]
[Standby for mission rewards]
Everything turned gray and my 'parents' froze. I moved away from them and saw that behind them there were so lit torches around a couple boxes. The torches and the boxes were in color.
A portal opened nearby for to exit. I didn't take it because I was far too enamored with and curious about the potential rewards that lay in store for .
There was a big box and a small box next to it. I tried opening the big one first. It was locked. Hmm. I got out my lockpicks and tried to pick the lock but it didn't work. I got a system ssage.
[Error: Lockpicking skill not permitted for use on reward boxes]
Hmm. If lockpicking didn't work, then maybe smashing did? I took the blood sword I was still holding and reford it into an axe. I started whacking at the large box with it, trying to smash it to bits. I got a system ssage again.
[Error: Reward box is indestructible]
I racked my brain for a solution. After a few seconds, the most obvious light bulb idea went off in my head that at first I thought it couldn't possibly be correct. What if the key that Elder Ravenkin gave would unlock them?
It was entirely possible. He never said where or how he got it. And he clearly didn't know what it opened. What if he found it in a portal and just never figured out how to use it.
I pulled the red key out of my pocket. I slowly put it into the lock of the large box and turned it left. I heard the telltale click of a lock disengaging. I pulled the key out and put it in my pocket.
I opened the box. Held within it was a katana with a deep crimson blade that shimred in the torchlight.
[You have obtained the sword "Muramasa's Blood Fiend"]
[Forged by Muramasa himself and rumored to be a cursed sword that requires blood to be shed whenever it is drawn]
[Muramasa's Blood Fiend possesses the following abilities:]
[Blood Honing: Every ti the sword absorbs blood from a new source, it becos slightly sharper and deals more damage than before]
[Blood Mastery: Increases the effectiveness of blood manipulation by 100%]
[Blood Sense: After absorbing blood, the wielder can sense the location and movent of that blood, whether within an opponent's body or in traces left behind. This provides an intuitive awareness of the target's position and movents in battle, and allows tracking of injured targets through blood trails or residue]
[Blood Draw: A concealed chanism in the sword's hilt. When activated, it extends a needle that pierces the wielder's palm, allowing for quick access to their blood for manipulation techniques]
Holy sh*t! What an amazing reward! This sword sounded incredible and perfectly tailored to my needs as a vampire and as a cultivator. The curse could barely be considered a drawback. I would only ever draw it if I intended to use it and if I ended up not needing to in a mont, I could just draw my own blood with it.
Now I just needed to figure out how to activate the Blood Draw ability. I twisted and cranked the hilt with both hands until I found out how to use it. I just had to crank the bottom half of the hilt forward away from and a sharp needle would puncture my palm.
It wasn't very deep or painful. The needle was so sharp, I barely felt it. I could see myself doing a lot of damage with this sword. I already had an idea for a blood manipulation technique I could use with it. That would have to wait for later though.
Now I needed to see what reward the small box held. I used the key again to open it and carefully put it back in my pocket. I needed to put that thing on a string along with my amulet so I couldn't lose it.
When I opened the box, I was greeted to a relatively small pile of gold coins. I say relatively small pile because even a small pile of gold coins is a lot of gold coins!
[You have obtained 100 Gold Giblets!]
I saw a piece of fabric and string sticking out of the side of the pile. I pulled it out and saw that it was a dark midnight blue felt coin purse with a bright yellow cinching string.
I gathered all the coins into the purse, cinched it, and put it in my pocket. If I were a betting man, and sotis I am, I would guess that these coins were useable currency in the monster world. I knew the dragons would take them at the very least because they were gold and dragons loved gold.
I happened to look up above the boxes and noticed a strange tear in space. It looked like a pulsing red keyhole in the fabric of space. It obviously would use the key I had in my possession, but I had no idea what it would do. As I stared at it a system ssage popped up in front of .
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