Whoa… And she won’t die, even if she gets her head chopped off or her heart destroyed? That’s pretty disturbing to mention in her evolution text, but I feel like that info has been questionable in the past…
Name: Allo
Species: Walpurgis
Status: Cursed
Lv: 1/130
HP: 49/49
MP: 750/1168
Attack: 325
Defense: 263
Magic: 888
Agility: 291
Rank: A+
Special Skills:
Grecian Language: Lv 4
Undead: Lv —
Dark Type: Lv —
Body Morph: Lv 9
Privilege of the Dead: Lv —
Master of the Earth: Lv —
Evil Eye: Lv 7
Undead Maker: Lv —
Petrifying Gaze: Lv 7
Fly: Lv 1
Undying Darkness: Lv —
Black Wings of Malice: Lv —
Resistance Skills:
Debuff Immunity: Lv —
Physical Resistance: Lv 8
Magic Resistance: Lv 6
Halved Physical Damage: Lv —
Normal Skills:
Gale: Lv 8
Curse: Lv 6
Life Drain: Lv 7
Clay: Lv 7
Regenerate: Lv 8
Clay Doll: Lv 7
Mana Drain: Lv 8
Lingering Rope: Lv 6
Fog of the Dead: Lv 6
Charm: Lv 6
Wide Drain: Lv 6
Dark Sphere: Lv 6
Bloodsuck: Lv 7
Death: Lv 7
Illusion: Lv 7
Vampire Bat: Lv 7
Ravenous Venom Fangs: Lv 1
Dark Kaleidoscope: Lv 1
Title Skills:
Demon King’s Underling: Lv —
Hollow Mage: Lv 8
Everlasting Body: Lv —
Undead Queen: Lv —
Undying Witch: Lv —
Final Evolution: Lv —
H-holy cow… Check out all those new skills!
What was with these crazy specialized stats?! She had twenty-three times more MP than HP! I’d never seen anything like that before. Was she gonna be okay? Her HP could drop to zero in an instant!
A few of her Special Skills caught my eye: Unending Darkness and Raven Wings. She learned Fly too… I wonder if Raven Wings is related?
Special Skill “Undying Darkness.” The user’s body is made of darkness and magic. So long as she has MP, she will never perish. Allows user to automatically regenerate any missing HP by consuming MP.
Interesting… With this, her HP and MP are functionally the same thing. I was relieved to know I didn’t have to worry about Allo’s HP randomly dropping to zero because she tripped over something.
Special Skill “Black Wings of Malice.” Black wings sprout from the user’s back. The wings are more solid than they look and can be used for both attack and defense.
Oho… She’s got wings now, huh? With these and her new Fly skill, she’d definitely be able to take flight. That’d be cool. She’d have to test it out for us later.
Allo had a few new Normal Skills too: Vampire Bat, Dark Kaleidoscope, and Ravenous Venom Fangs.
Normal Skill “Vampire Bat.” Creates vampire bats from user’s blood. User shares vision with their vampire bats. Heavily depletes MP, but if the vampire bat is reabsorbed, most of the consumed MP can be recovered.
Ooh…! This looked handy for some easy reconnaissance and stuff. It reminded me of Beelzebub’s flies. I was a little concerned about what “reabsorbing” a vampire bat would entail, though…
Normal Skill “Dark Kaleidoscope.” Creates a clone of the user out of magic that possesses their own consciousness. Heavily depletes MP, but if the clone is reabsorbed, most of the consumed MP can be recovered.
I see… This is like a clone version of Vampire Bat. The “reabsorbing” stuff sounded kind of grotesque, but maybe it was just worded weirdly?
Normal Skill “Ravenous Venom Fangs.” User’s entire body opens into a gigantic mouth to bite any target in front of it, stealing both HP and MP from the bitten target and inflicting a variety of status conditions.
Whoa. That seems strong, but…her body opens up? Into a gigantic mouth…?
It…was probably best not to think too hard about that one.
“S-so, Master Dragon? How did I do?” Allo asked nervously, fists clenched.
I gave a huge nod. ‹You did it, Allo! You made it to rank A+!›
Her face lit up. “Really?!”
‹Yeah! Now you can show me all your new skills while we explore the forest!›
“You got it! I won’t let this hold you back, Master Dragon!”
Treant watched her with traces of unease in its bark-lined face. ‹Ah, Master! W-we should go explore and level up as soon as we can!›
Okay, okay, no need to rush… In truth, I also felt a sense of urgency pressing me forward. While we were stuck in this vast and eerie otherworldly forest, there was no telling what was going on in our original world. The sooner we made it back, the better.
Part 2
I TOOK OFF INTO THE SKY, with tree spirit Treant and Allo on my back, and flew high into the air. I felt like it was a good idea to get a bird’s-eye view of the entire landscape first, rather than exploring at ground level. From the ground, everything would look like the same unchanging forest, but hopefully I’d find some points of interest from above.
The sky was eerily lit by a pale blue moon. A strange, dark cloud seemed to cover part of the moon’s surface, but no matter how far I flew, it didn’t seem like I was getting any closer to it.
When I looked down, I saw endless rows of those same massive, mangled trees spread out in every direction.
‹What the heck? What’s with this creepy place…?›
There could be monsters underneath any of these trees, but I wouldn’t be able to see them through all the branches. Maybe this creepy forest really did stretch on forever…
‹M-Master?!› Treant called to me. ‹Perhaps we should go down a bit lower soon? If Miss Allo and I were to fall from this height, we surely wouldn’t survive!›
The strange trees—which were larger than me—now looked like tiny grains of rice below us. We’d reached a considerable height. But even from all the way up here, I saw no breaks in the sea of trees beneath us.
‹Hmm… Y’know, if you did a Meteor Stomp from this high, you might even be able to hit the Divine Voice.›
Treant’s branches quaked in panic. ‹M-Master?! I-I want to get down now! Please put me down!›
‹Sorry, sorry. I’m just kidding, Treant.› I craned my neck around to wink at it.