Metamorphosis

 

Tongqiu woke up merely 30 minutes after his confusing, because of the unknown time 'doing' the thing, session with Katia. When he woke up, she was right there to his left in a fetal position as if she had been in slumber all along. Her eyelids contained a trace of make-up but was in truth little stars, as if plastered into fusion inside her skin giving her a violet glowing ever so enchanting. Then he realized that he had the same kind of peculiarity the moment he tilted his head back a little, he could see a very small quantity of such a substance left by the stars themselves. It was their kind of unique recognition, a violet colored fog on his eyes, while a violet colored mist on hers.

He now had more than just an inkling for what they've just done besides 'love-making'.

'Am I a slut, or something? Heh.' Somewhat self-derisively but quite self-rebukingly Tongqiu thought to himself. 

As someone who very early on his life had a 'connection' by merely nature instincts without desire, which also ended up as the root of this badly lived years of his... it was like a myriad of playful non-physical hands going through the 100 m sturdy wall he had allowed others to create around him.

His pathetic disposition and unwavering low self-esteem lessening every day from before have had already halted. And intercourse with Katia magically gave him, something so ordinary yet completely oblivious to him, a sense of living.

Hence, he spent the next two hours cuddling the still moon-like skinned little brave woman while deviously caressing here everywhere without stop, as he had the dumbest of smiles possible all along. Inadvertently, her beautiful reddish-orange bountiful lips with the same formidable, irresistible shape made a slightly naughty but quite happy grin all along his endless molesting.

Finally, Katia began slowly, so slowly to open her eyes. Her body, neck to down, was still in her fetal position. Her head, however, had started to turn around gently when her eyes started opening. Tongqiu easily took notice of her awareness as he took her chin then her left cheek pressed onto the ground to rotate her head towards him, the spooning criminal Tongqiu.

Smoooooch!

The evil Tongqiu stole her lips, invading with saliva her lips as his tongue tortured the poor Katia's teeth, then cheeks before finally attacking the core of her taste buds and what not. Meanwhile, first surprised with slightly wide eyes taking into consideration her still sleepy state, then her eyes narrowed slightly yet again in contentment. And it was so, where the two beasts inside the caves battled for 15 minutes straight without a care for the word 'decency', when Katia finally bit way too hard, and even misplaced some of Tongqiu's meat of his lower lip before pushing the dumb idiot away.

"Aiy." Tongqiu exclaimed with the now dressing, yet still being naughtily seduced and provoked by Katia's dressing. Yet his -now crooked- serene smile was still plastered on his face as he looked at her. Unknown to Tongqiu, his clothes were turning into reality on his body, which let him understand that indeed, this Katia was really provoking his little restraint whenever she bend over to keep on dressing.

'Sigh. Here it comes, whatever introduction that I'm allowed to hear.' Tongqiu thought to himself as he just waited for the ever playful Katia to stop giving him her amazing back and speak to him.

Finally, after remaining in silence for minutes once she dressed completely, she turned her perfect little head and still amazing him with her hairstyle, she gazed at him in false sternness as she said: "Hey, now I'm going to reveal what you have become, and the needed procedures or ritual, whatever you'd like to call it, before coming out of here. Understood, my little baby?"

As she uttered 'my little baby' she started gingerly caressing his left cheek. Tongqiu locked his eyes on hers and said: "Ey, saying that, don't tell me your an 8,000 years old grandma?"

"Pffft! Of course not, who do you think I am, ah?" Unlike his expected reaction of being yelled at or slapped hard, dear playful Katia merely contained her laugh as she told him so. Of course, she 'finished' him with a killing smile of hers that was so entrancing, the reflection of the moon wasn't needed to make Tongqiu go dumb for a couple minutes. Which incited Katia to keep on smiling for those 2 more minutes.

"Anyways, I'll explain to you, and once we bid our goodbyes you're on your own." Suddenly, right after saying that she changed her aura and disposition to a somber, bloodthirsty and omnipotent demeanor: "Remember that I'll always be watching over you. Even when I enter into a little slumber I'll still be with you. As well as have me with you, you only have to use it. You'll understand once you go through these 'trials'."

"First of all, little darling, let me give you your respective unique essential proffe- oh right, you  Journeyers have it as classes, don't you? Aeeh whatever. Might as well, I'll unlock your own, unique class. Which'll help you elevate in essence towards... well that one is too soon even for you, my little daring. Let's just say that not only would you be ahead of other Journeyers but you'll also start as one of 'them', as a being already in the path towards 'existence'. You just need, to follow your heart, little baby." Katia smiled while flashing him her canine, dangerous teeth.

She pointed towards him in a gesture, her index and middle finger being the only fingers in her hand to not be folded.

*PING*...  -  ...  -  ...

Strangely, the system couldn't give him any kind of information. Before he could grow panicked, something started to 'move' in within his body, starting from his torso before expanding towards his waist, then all the way to the soles of his feet. As for the upper side of his body, it continued to move on from his torso towards his collar bone, then neck before finally reaching every single part and millimetre of his head. Bringing Tongqiu to his memories when he found that peculiar and unique arrow back in the still unknown forest.

He instinctively, or rather just by reasoning checked his stats:

Character: Tongqiu

Race: Human — Innate Race Talents: Adaptability, Racial Reproductive Wonder, Warmonger — Race Ability: Union

Level: 6

Class: Evil Saint

Basic attributes: STR: 42, DEX: 42, LCK: 42, REC: 42, WIS: 42, INT: 42, DET: 42, Luck: 6, Charm: 6

Association: None, Money: 530, Fame: 885

HP: 1,470, MP: 1,240, Stamina: 1,340

Attack Power: 486, Magic Power: 636

Physical Defense: 152, Magical Defense: 152, HP Regeneration: 5

Hit Rate: 6%, Dodge Rate: 6%

Critical Hit Rate: 6%, Pierce  Rate: 6%, Critical Hit Damage: 21%

Attack Speed: 106%, Movement Speed: 106%

Core Elemental Resistance: Fire: 0%, Water: 0%, Earth: 0%, Wind: 0%, Lightning: 0%

AP: 0, SP: 58

Skills: [Unparalleled Angle]: Skill: Passive, Trigger, MAX LV 20, LV: 8, SP before next LV: 384. Usually, to start an attack one needs to accumulate force, raw strength. Use this skill in the opportune moment to change the direction and angle of attack of your melee weapon without losing any strength, and with accurate precision. Costs 10 mana and 20 stamina. Additional Effect: When activated Physical Damage7%. 

[Tongqiu's Rain Showdown]: Type: Active Skill, MAX LV: 20, LV: 4, SP needed for next level:80 . Cooldown: 4 seconds. Consumption: 4 MP, 4 Stamina. Range: 0-24 meters. With Tongqiu's weapon or weapons in use, point with it towards the sky to activate this skill to create from the sky an AOE rain of attacks with the shape of the weapon  or item in use (arrow, bolt, javelin) without stopping for 7 seconds. Creates around 10 of the weapon's shadows per second with damage equal to 150% of Tongqiu's Attack Power and Magic Power for each shadow.

Equipment:

x2 [Sunfacing Brilliant Gladius]: Type: One-Handed Dual Sword, Grade: Magical(Violet), Equipment Requirements: Tongqiu, Attributes: Physical Attack+156, STR+32, REC+17, LCK+6. Able to evolve to the next grade. However the required materials and skill capable to do it are extremely demanding.

[Bloodstained Iron Armguard]: Type: Armguard, Grade: Powerful(Dark Blue), Equipment Requirements: LV5, Attributes: Physical Defense +24, DEX+11, STR+3.

[Durable Iron Boots]: Type: Shoe Garment, Grade: Powerful(Dark Blue), Equipment Requirements: LV5, Attributes: Physical Defense+32, DEX+12, DET+4.

[Tempered Chestplate]: Type Upper Garment, Grade: Powerful(Dark Blue, Equipment Requirements: LV 6 or higher, Attributes: Physical Defense+62, REC+13, DET+5.

*PING*... the selection of the unidentified class 'Evil Saint' has metamorphosed the Journeyer's body and essence. The following changes had been made. All your main basic attributes had been forcibly reset to 0. All other stats have been reset to the basics. No more AP granted per level, now there is an automatic rise of +7 points to all stats. Each level up also increases HP+50, MP+50, Stamina+50 and only items' permanent boosts in them can remain. Movement Speed and Attack Speed+1% each level up. Critical Hit Rate, Pierce Hit Rate, Hit Rate and Dodge Rate also increase +1% each level up. Physical and Magical Power+25 each level up. Physical and Magical Defense+10 each level up. Luck and Charm+1 each level up... Mind Power+1 each level up.

*PING*... the origin of the Journeyer's class as well as its grading it's [???]- unknown. Only available data is what follows: All equipment is useless to such evil, as such, attributes of all equippable items are completely useless to the 'Evil Saint'. They'll only be useful when desiring to activate certain 'weapon-only' related skills.

Tongqiu: ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ O'RLY?

What else could he do? This was clearly much more than one would expect, even for an advanced class at that, let alone how unique this change was. And he could feel it, his virtual body actually seemed so much different from his insides. Every single movement in his body was clearly sensed by himself. It was magnificent.

"Good. And it seems to be quite unprecedented that even I'm shocked, you didn't let down your big wife, eh?" As Katia spoke, Tongqiu moved away his gaze from his status window towards the hands behind her back, leaning forwards and 2 meters away from him cute Katia looking at him with an innocent pair of eyes.

"Ah... this is truly overpowered quite, no? I mean, what am I supposed to... be... come?" As Tongqiu was elaborating on his muddled thoughts, he realized that it really... didn't seem simple at all.

So he just stopped talking, and shot a glance towards Katia the evil. And his waiting stance didn't last long, as Katia continued with her previous 'battle-mode' aura:  "Next, you'll just need to go through two more events, remember to always be focused on the real you, even if you won't you must, clear?" 

Hearing Katia's utmost serious and demanding voice, made Tongqiu only want to listen to her.

'Focused on the real me? Even if I won't... I must?'

"Alright then, I guess it's time you get out of this little land of mine, you little dummy." Katia smiled at him, this time in a manner that indicates a farewell. While Tongqiu, in exchange, merely softly kept his gaze at her as he took 3 quick steps. Once he arrived before her, he casually lifted his right hand to hold the back of her head, as he leaned forwards and finally, their foreheads met. All this while Katia looked at him with her fully opened eyes and slightly opened mouth, an extremely beautiful abstract image of her teeth with her lips made Tongqiu steal her lower lip in his mouth as he caressed her lip with his dryly. At the end of the kiss, he finally put his upper lip in the middle of hers while his lower lip was below hers. 

As Tongqiu was being enveloped by a light blue energy and 'magical' bubbles started rotating around his body, Katia reciprocated by obediently allowing his farewell. As he finally disappeared, she sat down with the same eyes of having a wild Tongqiu taking her mouth hostage as she seemed to be gazing at his back from another dimension.

***

Tongqiu arrived in what seemed to be an open space of clear, light blue everywhere. He could walk around here so it wasn't like in his white space from his 'True Wish' relic. However he didn't know what to do.

After walking for what for him was a confusing flow of time he finally found a diminute speck of an inexplicable unique verdant shining. It seemed as if they were countless kilometres apart, but once he advanced 15 steps that thing was practically only a couple meters before him. Tongqiu stopped momentarily, he could discern what it was, it was that small little bow he found when he first entered the game, in that forest. He remembered Katia's words, and instantly he went forwards as he extended his left hand, which was the one he picked the bow with, as he grabbed onto it.

Enormous quantities of energy-like substances in that same unique verdant sheen was as if imploding, gushing out of the bow once he made contact with it. Inadvertently, he instead of trying to run away from it, he instead exerted as much raw strength as he could. Then as if the bow's whatever intentions of calling to him were successful started another kind of action. All those energy-like verdant green that came from the bow were everywhere in the space around Tongqiu, as there was a sudden and without warning complete utter silence. After a moment of such silence, 'they' all started to move towards Tongqiu 'merging' into him from every part of his body. It was as if Tongqiu became a beacon for those things as even the bow started to materialize into his own being. At the same time, Tongqiu didn't let go of his advice from Katia as he thought, only, of his true nature.

'What is... my true... nature?' It got so painful -mentally- to the point that even his thoughts were easily interrupted by the incessant bombardment of... essence?

He stopped trying to figure out what his nature was, and he simply looked at his own left arm and left hand. He started visualizing his entire body structure from them. First, it was a view coming from what it would easily be known as bone, veins, blood... but then it turned somewhat without following a pattern. It no longer made sense nor was something probed by science. He saw globes of any color that intertwined all around each other inside his left hand and arm, as well as other globes of just any color close to his body to start pouncing all over his body, specially his left hand and arm. After some time, such heavily pouncing of a myriad of color of globes extended from his left hand and arm towards all the left half side of his body, without stop. At some point, it was so full that the word colorful was little compared to how blinding and immensely bountiful were all those countless globes of different colors all writhing about inside his left half side of his body!

Slowly, the invasion of essence into his body finished as there was no more to take from, or rather, to accept from. His eyes suddenly but slowly, closed as he felt muddled. He could only discern that his body was being elevated as it slowly rotated backwards for a few minutes. When he was about to be upside down thanks to the slow rotation, his body jerked downwards from his feet as his body stomped on yet another space.

This just entered space by Tongqiu was metallic colored along with pitch-abyss like darkness moving around, not remaining static. Intuitively, Tongqiu expected to see something that would allow him to advance just like he did with the bow just then. And sure enough, just as his eyes opened after having that thought, there was the pure black colored shaft and the extremely perfect-clean and metallic arrowhead with some traces of being 'tainted' by the shaft's color.

He extended his right hand towards it, just as he had done when he discovered it. The moment he touched, a similar scene occurred where instead of the quick flowing, fast and agile essence coming from the bow; it was instead a muddy, slow, heavy and threatening essence. If there was a way to describe its form, it'd be that of ashes that came from burning the soul, with a combination of a metallic-grey and pitch black abyss-like colors intertwining as they moved in waves exactly towards Tongqiu's position, towards him. They slowly but surely entered into his every less than a millimetre of skin, becoming a living beacon for such essence, just like the sheen unique verdant colored essence was.

At the same time, Tongqiu instinctively started 'seeing' once again those globes of different colors heavily pouncing towards his right hand as his insides were also full of them. Slowly, his right half side of his body was also flooded by those globes from so many different colors. All this while Tongqiu kept on ponder on what his 'side' was...

Then everything shut down, everything around him became completely dark, obscure. And as his eyes simply remained open, his whole skin was starting to be 'tainted' by the darkness. Inching forwards, invading his skin more and more every moment. Tongqiu closed his eyes in abandonment as even his eyes had already been started to be 'tainted' by such darkness.

The many-colors of globes inside his entire body were there but still somehow separated by an inexistent barrier in the middle of the two half sides of his body. Tongqiu willed, and so the 'barrier' was no more for those globes as they began dancing around those of the 'other side' one after another without stop. After who knows what kind of time passed, they then started to 'merge' just like the essence, nowhere to be seen, had done so with Tongqiu's body.

As even more unknown time went on, those globes of many colors of the left side finally merged with those of the right side. Strangely, there seemed to be just as much of them in volume than before, and even more. Each of them had a blackish outlining as well as completely dark-grey in the inside. Then, once again, Tongqiu willed it; as little traces of a dark-like abyss pitch-black essence started materializing inside those globes. It seemed as if a sickness or plague was suddenly started and there was no time to even blink as they then would already become completely void-black, let alone impede or stop it!

In the darkness... Tongqiu suddenly opened his eyes! They were metallic grey, and they would change to a dark-like abyss pitch-black color in any moment, as well into the metallic grey from before. As if as long as he wills it, he is capable of doing such changes any time or moment. And even if he didn't, they'd still do so automatically, as if it was their very nature. 

The darkness, instead of retreating as if he was their failed-to-become prey, instead seemed to be invigorated as a cheering motion came all over than endless space of darkness.

---

 

At the center of the core section of the mountainous area, Misty region.

Players arrived before the now leveled down to the ground tallest mountain. As they arrived, they seemed to not be able to get closer than 300 meters from its center so they stopped advancing and instead sent scouts as well as camped all around the previous 'arena'. It's been 2 days since the battle ended and though new beasts and animals took the territory of the previously known bandit's hunting area which allowed them to stay here to level, everyone was nonetheless getting damned tired and worn out from waiting the nothing, to occur.

Many were already with long faces and grudgingly looking at Raoundozia. Some formed their own parties and peacefully levelled together. Some others that also did that, but also discovered a new ambition of seizing another's man hard work to increase in power arousing within themselves. And the retards were already trying to befriend the others in hopes of succeeding their incredible, marvelous and flawless 'schemes'. Raoundozia however, gave a shit.

*PING*

System Announcement: ... The first Lord grade BOSS has been killed by the 'Journeyer' — 'Little Phoenix Maiden'. As a result, received special rewards and privileges from being the first on doing so in Main Kingdom.

*PING!!!*

System Announcement: ... Attention 'Journeyers', the first to reach LV10 has finally appeared, 'Little Phoenix Maiden' has reached LV10 and became the first in Main Kingdom to do so. Special privileges had been granted.

Wide-eyed, wide-mouthed. Only such wording could describe not only the players at the mountainous area in Misty region, but those from all over New Earth players, 'Journeyers' in Main Kingdom!!

"Wow, that's incredible! I wonder if this 'maiden' is as beautiful as her achievements? Heh heh heh kheh." The lascivious fool of a man suddenly choked in his words, allowing all by-standers to easily mock at him in roaring laughter.

"Maaaan~, she was so lucky! If we didn't got here late and that hidden retard gotten the BOSS away, we would've so damn easily achieved LV10 in numbers, what the fuck." At such obvious conceited, arrogant words, Raoundozia merely glanced in slight slits of his eyes towards the man who just spoke, and just as he was about to resume his delicious eating... it happened.

*PING!!!* SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT

*PING!!!* SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT

*PING!!!* SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT

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