Twin Dragons

He eyed their graceful bodies and felt a fire in his loins. These four days were like four months in the wild for him, he embraced his killer instinct and bestiality to survive, he hadn't even had a proper meal while letting out his fighting instinct, his hormones were in overdrive and he desperately needed a vent.

He usually went with his group to the red light district after school and booked a suite meant for rich customers , to go wild.

Those guys were just to his right, he could tell that they were restraining themselves as well.

"Let's f*ck their brains out and throw them to the beast. What do you say men. We deserve some relaxation."

The men looked at each other. Until now, they had no moral reason to act on their desires but the fires were lighted by Jake as the girls did seem quite appealing now.

Seeing his words showing results, Jake broke down the final barrier, " I mean you heard the fairy, no laws exist here, we're living proof of the difference"

"We deserve some fun don't we, think of the olden days where things were lawless as well, women had to do exactly what we told them, why not now?"

At that, they all United as one in lust. Minerva was slightly disgusted at them as a lady but she couldn't show favoritism, it was understandable that they were pent up and misguided now, all they needed was a wake up call.

"Please calm down, we need to calm down now, right now is when we should unite as much as ever."

"Oh, sexy b*tch, how do you suppose we survive that monster, fight it? Psh, right. You women are the obvious choice, after we have a little fun first."

Her brows wrinkled at his disrespect but she wrote it off. He was just a child. And she truly had no way around the beast, she wasn't naive , people had to be sacrificed but she couldn't openly do it and feel right.

It wasn't until the fight broke out and a boy overpowered an injured girl and ripped off her clothes biting off her nipple in savagery that she came to, she knew then, that she had to harden her heart and shed a layer of humanity, Her stats were undoubtedly the highest of all of them,

She drew her weapon and activated the skill she luckily got a few moments ago from a monster on the way, it was an attack skill, she knew she was the only one with any skills at all and with mana too.

She attacked Jake,

"Ugh, you-"

She threw a hidden dagger at his leg to slow him down but it didn't strike there do to her bad aim and actually stabbed his groin causing him to howl in pain, She seized the opportunity

with her on the girls side, they overpowered them and tossed the first five in.

Tying up the rest.

Reflecting on what just happened, as it fully sunk in, they pushed aside the feeling of unease in their hearts from doing that to another human being and kept telling themselves they were right with some having slightly strained looks.

Minerva saw this and parted her lips, but said nothing.

'I can't let their morale lower, this is like battle we must stay strong, I know we can.'

It was at this moment, she decided to create an all girl group it was only them she could trust, the vulgar curses and insults from the boys hadn't stopped even now, imagine if they were men. A smiling face flashed in her mind but she knew she wouldn't see him again so that was irrelevant.

However, a story he once told her seemed to grow clearer and clearer, the story of an Amazon Princess who led her people to victory against evil.

She felt something change within the depths of her being, like something awakened. She subconsciously touched her ear.

[Minerva Lightwood]

Strength: 21.1

Stamina: 19.2

Agility: 16.1

Perception: 15.6

Mana: 12.3

<Trait>

-Lord

<Skills>

Blood recovery: 1.5%

Pagon's thrust: 0.2%

She knew without anyone telling her, what Lord meant, like how a spider knows how to make webs, she looked at the 14 girls and granted them her symbol, Thus the All Female Clan- Amazon, was born.

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V looked over at the transparent altar and viewed the alien that was described as nigh unbeatable.

It certainly was one ugly son of dishwasher. V as he checked his stats, " Go down and draw its attention, you'll attack from the front and I'll attack from the rear." He ordered the battle puppet to start the dance.

[Vicente Von Vongola]

Strength (colorless): 0.01%

Stamina (colorless): 0.01%

Perception: 85.3

Agility: 79.4

Sixth Sense: 36.1

Mana: 50.1

Magic: 42

Physical Resistance: 28.3

Magic Resistance: 28.1

Luck: 20

Charm: 20

Charisma: 20

His luck stat was to thank for the agility, perception, sixth sense and other rare runes. Perhaps due to them, they dropped more often and the sixth sense runes while scarce dropped as well. He wasn't unlucky enough for no runes to drop from a foe either.

Luck, Charm, and Charisma were basically pipedream. He couldn't even imagine what sort of being could bring those to colorless, usually only combat stats dropped through killing.

Generally that wasn't a problem as no one unlocked their passive non combat stats but he did. If the sage stone unlocked all stats and increased it by 10, why did he see no mention of Enbi Arin having the sixth sense stat. Puzzling. However, such things weren't his problem at the moment.

Normally even with his two colorless runes it would take a while to defeat it. But both he and his puppet had colorless runes so he would definitely defeat it. He watched as the puppet jumped down from the summit of the altar and attacked the beast with a katana he gave it which was coated in poison as was the spear.

Grrrrrrrr!

Boom. Boom.

The Carnivorous Beast was smashing the insides of the Altar as if it was about to go crazy from hunger.

The puppet jumped down and cut the air a few times before slicing at it's eye but the thing was smart enough to block with one hand, which naturally was pierced through but due to its size not much blood was taken,

<Racial Skill>

A skill that a race has ever since they are born.

There were two racial skills that the Carnivorous Beast in front of him could use.

<Fear> and <Devour>

It would paralyze the prey with fear and then eat it with devour to quickly regenerate its health.

The fear which contains the killing intent of the predator was a skill in itself. But the puppet was non living and not affected.

Kuahhh!

The Carnivorous Beast's fear rumbled around the insides of the Altar.

The Fear was basically affected by the individual's mentality. His puppet had no worries however. It launched its attack once more.

Rawwwwwwrrrrrr!!!

The beast noticed it immediately and swung it's claw at it, prepared, it spun in the air and dodged. Simultaneously, he jumped in speedily with his spear in hand, he aimed and flung the spear right in it's head, his puppet also shoved its blade towards its eyes.

He ran bare handed ready to combat it with his Tai Chi, only through life threatening battles could he emerge stronger, just one hit from its huge arms. The beast swung it's claw at him and his puppet simultaneously in pain, the spear had connected and was inches away from its brain.

It wanted to pull it out but both of them were fighting an uncharacteristically fast melee for users of taichi, dodging all its swings and sometimes using its own limbs as a footstone and leaping in the air.

Bangggg!!

It savagely hit the puppet backwards, but they had sensed it with their sixth sense, the puppet wasn't made of flesh so he allowed it to be hit, in that minute that instant he used his hands to stand on it and used all his strength to kick the embedded spear even further within its skull.

He didn't loosen up as his Sixth Sense told him it was like a headless chicken, still capable of movement, the puppet returned to close quarters where they used each other as support and flung themselves toward it, the puppet below and him above, he grabbed the spear embedded within it and pushed it through its skull where it fell through the other end.

He threw the spear to the puppet while kneeing the beast in it's eye, he somersaulted And the puppet flung back the spear after thrusting a few times at it's heels, he also flung the katana that was almost dull, V held both weapons and spun with a Levi like maneuver to sever five of its fingers.

He slid under the beast while throwing the katana at it's crotch, which had no organs but it was still a gathering of nerves, he had thrown the spear to the puppet who knelt and sprang upwards to deal a fatal blow to the beast, V returned to close range, leaped off the puppets shoulders while grabbing his spear dealing the finishing blow.

Time passed and the head fell off like a bottle falling down.

'I .... won.'

He had just defeated a colorless beast, such a beast was nigh impossible to beat without all colorless runes but he did it, he actually won.

The pain from the large gash on his shoulder and the bigger one on his back seemed to cool down from the euphoria of victory. His tense muscles finally cooled down and repeatedly spasmed.

His feet gave out as he collapsed to the ground breathing heavily while taking a pill a.k.a. regeneration rune.

A feeling of accomplishment settled in his heart. A colorless beast was defeated with 0.01% colorless runes.

They show it in numbers in order to make it easy for people to understand in the beginning in the Tutorial but the runes were actually shown in a progressive way.

Like experience.

It said it was colorless but an aura that emitted a faint light twirled around V's body.

A fear only Hansoo accomplished at this level, maybe she did too but ... no matter.

When a color becomes integrated like that then it truly becomes the Otherworld's rune from that point on.

In one sense, what they had to do was similar.

Just like how one got strong when the number of runes went up, when the percentage rose they would naturally get strong.

The fact that you needed to collect runes to become strong was the same.

If there was a difference then it was that when you hit 100%, then your rune will change into the rune of next stage.

From colorless to red, from red to orange, from orange to yellow and so on.

It rose stage by stage.

And every time your rune increased by a stage, you gained a large benefit.

There was only a very small difference between normal rune 99.9 and colorless rune 0.01% but there is a large gap in between.

Since the aura of activating the rune had grown by a stage.

Strength and Stamina at 100, Perception and Agility needed to be around 50.

This was the bare minimum line Hansoo had chosen in his try, he had done it as well, he could say he was Hansoo's rival at this point but he aimed to be even greater.

If the strength was lower than that then it was hard to penetrate the armor and if you lacked the stamina then you wouldn't be able to hold on until it died.

Your agility and perception needed to be around that in order to sense and dodge its attacks.

It was not something that was there to be killed.

It just wanted them to fight with each other and offer sacrifices.

That was why it was a hidden piece. No one had the thoughts of killing it and that was the reason why it was hidden.

Since it was a estimate that came from a long time of battle experience so it wasn't wrong.

He had won.

Kuuuhhhh…

It let out a last cry as it fell down.

Creeping him out as the head was separated. He wanted to jump in alarm but his muscles screamed viciously at him, 'Bitch what the hell are you trying to pull, us!'

So he remained sprawled out.

The carnivorous beast didn't drop any runes as if it wasn't designed to be killed.

The requirements of the Hidden piece was simple in some ways.

To kill the monster before it destroyed the Altar and jumped out.

For it to come out it needed to destroy the Altar but in that instant the chance of attaining the hidden piece disappears.

Which meant that if you wanted to kill him you needed to kill it inside the Altar where his fears got amplified.

'It's seriously not something that was designed for somebody to kill'

V went into the room in the corner of the Altar to retrieve his reward after the regeneration rune restored sufficient health.

And in the middle of the room there was a single artifact.

"Ring of the Vampire King Nurmaha."

Solo ranking <9>

<Numbering Series>

The level of artifacts all differed.

There were a lot of different bases to judge but the most important one was color.

What kind of energy it can absorb.

It could be an artifact that shows its full potential only if it uses the colorless energy in the colorless are or it could be an artifact that only shows its full potential if it uses the red area or energy of the blue area which came after the red area.

Of course an artifact using a higher quality energy would be of a higher level so the level of the artifact changed with the color as the base.

Colorless artifact, Red artifact and so on…

Once you separate them into these levels they are further split up into different levels.

Unless it's an amazing artifact there was no way for it to be worth more than the artifact of a higher color.

The high quality colorless artifacts were inferior to the low quality red artifacts.

So even if you were somebody who flew around the area you were at you needed to slowly increase the standards of your artifact in the middle area and then go over.

Since the weapons from the previous stage didn't really work very well in the next stage.

But sometimes, very unique artifacts came out.

Growing Artifact.

Their uniqueness was that they went through growth.

Just like an adventurer absorbing runes and changing their tune from colorless to red and to orange, the artifact also absorbed something and improved its color.

Not every Growing Artifact was expensive

If it wasn't as good as other artifacts despite you investing a lot into and growing it than it was better to just find a decent weapon the middle stage before going to the next stage

But of cause Growing Artifacts also had different levels.

The child of a dragon would be stronger than others at the age of one and be stronger than others at the age of ten, this gap would only get larger as they grew up.

The Growing artifacts that improved like this and always stayed at the top were called

<Numbering Series>

It was sometimes called <Draconic Series> because it grew like a dragon, these were the strongest artifacts that even surpassed artifacts on higher levels of color.

From number 1 to 999.

999 items that the Manoros Clan, which were one of the nine pillars, had judged and chosen out with strictly, the strongest items of the ones found so far.

It didn't care whether it was a ring, an armor or a weapon.

You put them in a line and then give them a number.

From rank 1 to 9 were solo numbering.

10 to 99 was double numbering.

100 to 999 was triple numbering.

These artifacts were usually famous by themselves but they would get even more famous depending on who used them.

Because even if a weakling got lucky and obtained these, these would eventually fall into the hands of the strong.

It was harder and more important to keep the artifacts of the otherworld than obtaining them.

If you carry around an artifact too good for you than you lose both your life and the artifact.

And solo numbering <9>, <Nurmaha's Ring> was one of the strongest artifacts that got famous because of Clementine and something that had made him famous.

Nicknamed [Absolute Ring].

With this, his goals for the tutorial's first stage was over.

<Nurmaha's Ring>

A Growing Artifact that contained eight powers.

It absorbed runes and growed, and every time it rose a level in color it would unlock another power.

The current Nurmaha's ring was a colorless artifact

And because of that there was only one power unlocked.

The first power. <Power Destruction>

It wasn't simply a dispel magic that got rid of skills.

It was an ability that could nullify anything from passive skills to even an individual's trait.

Of course it wasn't that the person who got smacked would become a traitless person and lose tons of mana.

The Otherworld wasn't such a easy place.

Just because you obtained a godly sword did not mean that you could become a sword master and just because of an artifact a rabbit could not become a dragon nor a pig become a dragon.

And even if such things existed, these things won't land in the lands of a rabbit or a pig.

And even if it did land in their lands they won't be able to use it because of limitations

And even if they could use it, they won't be able to protect it.

To use it one needed to match the other person's trait or when they use the trait and every time you used it it will cost mana, also the destroyed power will eventually come back.

But the fact that you could cancel the enemy's powers at the right time and in the right place was a huge advantage.

Since by the the time their powers come back, they would've become a corpse.

It wasn't just a Draconic Series.

It was called so because it was already amazing at the colorless stage.

And this was a Growing Artifact, this was just the start.

The slightly huge ring shrunk to fit his finger, It was red with web like runic black symbols and lines engraved on it. He had it on his left hand, his spear was on his back as well. Both of dragons of this area, although the spear would become useless after the tutorial.