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Ervas glanced at his available Jobs with excitement, he had just acquired new powers that might end up being reflected in different Jobs as well. He was quite undecided about what to choose next. ??
[Jobs Available]
[Life Spirit Mage], [Spiritual Half-Demon], [Gray Wizard], [Magic Cannoneer], [Spiritual Alchemist], [Mana Crafter], [Life Demon Druid], [Hollow Demon General], [Life Spirit Pharmacist], [Harvester of Life], [Artisan: Phantasmal Living Equipment], [Guardian of the Spiritual Forest], [Subconscious Mind Demon], [Herald of Life and Death] (New!), [Living and Undead Progenitor] (New!), [Vicious Bloodsucking Phantasmal Demon] (New!)
"This… did I ever had such cool-sounding Jobs as Anastacia?" wondered Ervas.
Three new Jobs appeared in front of Ervas's sight, two of them seemed to be related to his affinity with Life Attribute Spirit Magic and his mastery over it alongside his power over dead spirits, undead, and Death. Meanwhile, the last job was related to his latest evolution, perhaps just recently 'generated' or 'unlocked'.
"I'll pick the one I already had my sight on… the later ones must be quite hard to level up, but this one shouldn't take much, maybe" said Ervas, choosing the 'Harvester of Life' Job.
Ding!
[You changed Jobs to [Harvester of Life]!]
[You acquired the [Life Drain; Level 1] Skill!]
"Life drain…? I guess I've been doing this for a while with the plants of the forest… but it is finally recognized as a skill…"
Just as Ervas said, he had already been performing what could be called as 'Life Drain' to the plants of the forest, by giving them his mana and then taking it back, it was also as if he gave them vitality and then drained it back to himself, he did this constantly for weeks now, and it felt as natural as breathing.
[The Levels of the [Life Drain; Level 1], [Bloodsucking; Level 2], [Phantom Form Transformation; Level 2], [Night Vision; Level 3], [Abnormal Status Resistance; Level 4], and [Spirit Magic; Level 5] Skills have increased!]
"My bloodsucking leveled up again. Is it related to the Job? I acquired the job before Bloodsucking… Oh well" said Ervas, as he unknowingly absorbing the 'life' of a goblin that had fainted instead of dying near him, the goblin suddenly woke up and began to shriek, its vitality was sucked up completely as it died instantly.
"Oh… I need to practice this a bit" said Ervas. He felt a few health points recovering as he did this… but unlike he imagined things, the goblin was not dried out of its life into a mummy, as they would usually depict 'draining' the life of a living being in Earth's movies or fiction in general.
Draining life in Kritias was draining Health Points out of a target, much like Mana Drain was draining the Mana Points, any living being had Health Points and Mana Points, but it seems like it was impossible to absorb life from the undead, even if they had Health Points in the system, they lacked 'life', however, they compensated this by usually having more mana than living beings.
Ervas power was rather dangerous, so he decided to cover himself in a thin layer of telekinetic force that prevented his presence from absorbing life until he could figure out how to deactivate it properly… maintaining the telekinesis as a barrier on his entire body cost thousands of mana per second, but he had millions and regenerated even more per second, so it wasn't a big deal.
"It was a fruitful Job change; I can now absorb the life of targets," said Ervas.
"That's certainly terrifying master!" said Goliath, coming back from his hunt as he carried the corpse of an Ogre, the same that ran away from Veronica and various lizards.
Veronica left one of her clones to cook some food for now using the minotaur flesh and the meat Goliath brought, while Ervas drained the corpses out of the blood so they could be butchered with ease.
It was a simple meal of minotaur hotpot and roasted beef, alongside ogre and lizard stew and skewers, there was also sandwiches and fried slices of lizard meat.
"Cooked food… how long has it been? I don't even remember my name now, but I surely remember the smell of cooked food!" said Goliath almost crying in joy, smelling the skewers delightfully with his long goblin nose and then digging in happily. Even if he was undead, it seems that he was capable of having a sense of taste, smell, and more due to the 'Special Five Senses' skill, similar to Veronica.
After evolving, Ervas was especially voracious and ate more than ten times his weight, and did not seem to stop anytime soon.
"Ervas is pretty hungry today! I cannot eat more, I am stuffed… I wish I could eat as much as Ervas!" said Amelia innocently, she was a five years old girl and couldn't eat more than half her stomach size… but Ervas seemed to have an endless stomach the moment he acquired the 'Digestion' skill.
"You're quite hungry today, aren't you, boy?" laughed Ismene as she assisted the rest of Veronica's clones in cooking more for Ervas.
"I am not done yet! I will not lose to Ervas! Another bowl of hotpot please!" said Acathea.
"I want some more stew as well, peko!" said Pekorina.
"Maybe if we eat as much as Ervas and Veronica, we could acquire the Digestion skill?" asked Anna.
"I don't think that's how it works, Anna. Ervas is more monster than human" said Ismene.
"That hurt a bit," said Ervas.
"Ah, sorry! I didn't intend to say that like that…" said Ismene.
"Oh, okay, don't worry," said Ervas, as he aberrantly transformed his entire body with 'Phantom Form Transformation', generating many jaws which he used to devour more food… he was clearly like a monster right now.
Everyone glanced at Ervas's spectacle with a bit of disbelief except Veronica and Goliath, who cheered for him to eat more.
"Eat more Ervas, here comes another bowl!"
"Thanks, nom, nom"
"Here you go master, another skewer!"
"Thanks, nom, nom"
The feast did not stop until Ervas was completely stuffed and then he fell asleep. But he was so hungry that Goliath and Anna had to go hunt many more monsters until he was fully satisfied… it seems that his body was asking for an abnormal amount of calories and energy due to his most recent evolution.
The party then carried Ervas through the night, the entire minotaur was eaten by Ervas except for the bones and horns that remained with Veronica to use.
They could not bring Minotaur meat to the tribe, but they brought a lot of Ogres that they hunted in the way, which was enough to feed the entire tribe for the rest of the night in a big feast which Ervas did not participate in, as he was peacefully sleeping while being embraced by Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Ivy, Gwendolyn, and many other of his monsters.
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[Name: Ervas Igni
[Race: Crimson-eyed Bloodsucking Spectral Half-Demon (Mother: Dagvaarder Demon)
[Age: 2
[Titles: Mysterious Half-Demon Boy, Miraculous Nature???s Child
[Type: Demon/Human.
[Rank: 5
[Rank Level: 001/100
[Job: Harvester of Life.
[Job History: Apprentice No-Attribute Mage, No-Attribute Mage, Mana Nucleus, Mana Source, Mind Dweller, Apprentice Farmer, Apprentice Spirit Caster, Telekinetic Fighter, Botanist, Summoner, Hollow Life Specter.
[Job Level: 001/100
[Health Points: 385/385 > 827/827
[Mana Points: 46.347.820/46.347.820 > 72.666.209/72.666.209
[Strength: 232 > 737
[Defense: 203 > 508
[Magic: 3205 > 7325
[Resistance: 716 > 1811
[Agility: 564 > 1059
<Passive Skills>
[Memory Retention; Level 4]
[Special Five Senses; Level 7]
[Soul Void; Level 4]
[Phantom Form; Level 4]
[Phantom Form Transformation; Level 3]
[Mana Enlargement; Level 6]
[Magic Enlargement; Level 5]
[Automatic Mana Recovery; Level 5]
[Demon Metabolism; Level 5]
[Night Vision; Level 4]
[Abnormal Status Resistance; Level 5]
[Mana Control; Level 6]
[Chant Revocation; Level 5]
[Commanding; Level 5]
[Strengthen Followers; Level 4]
[Parallel Thought Processing; Level 5]
[Fast Speed Thought Processing; Level 5]
[Increased Mana Recovery Rate; Level 4]
[Coordination; Level 3]
[Self-Enhancement; Following (Veronica); Level 4]
[Telekinesis; Level 4]
[Surpass Limits; Telekinesis; Level 4]
[Vegetation Charm; Level 3]
[Rapid Healing; Level 4]
[Death Attribute Charm; Level 3]
[Golem Transmutation; Level 2]
[Soul Binding; Level 2]
[Dominate Created Undead; Level 2]
[Superhuman Strength; Level 2]
<Active Skills>
[Hardworking; Level 7]
[Appraisal; Level 6]
[Mana Drain; Level 7]
[Life Drain; Level 2]
[No-Attribute Magic; Level 5]
[Spirit Magic; Level 6]
[Botanist; Level 6]
[Crafting; Level 3]
[Butcher; Level 3]
[Cooking; Level 3]
[Alchemy; Level 3]
[Surpass Limits; Mana Usage; Level 5]
[Soul Materialization; Level 4]
[Phantom Materialization; Level 4]
[Shield Technique; Level 2]
[Armor Technique; Level 2]
[Unarmed Fighting Technique; Level 3]
[Long-Distance Control; Level 3]
[Digestion; Level 3]
[Bloodsucking; Level 3]
<Unique Skills>
[Summon; Level 2]
[Mind Encroachment; Level 3]
[Soul Break; Level 1]
<Befriended Spirits>
[Gaia, Young Spirit of Life and Nature]
<Commanding Monsters (Different than Taming)>
[Rank 5: Vicious Parasitic Vine Herb Colony, Gwendolyn, and her sisters] x7
[Rank 5: Large Dark Accursed Malevolent Tree, Ainsley, Alder, Anna] x3
[Rank 6: Giant Voracious Constrictor Venomous Thorny Vine Boa, Ivy]
[Rank 5: Parasitized Live-Dead Magic Club Berserker, Nick]
[Rank 5: Giant Goblin Zombie Warrior, Goliath, the Steel Fist]
<Summoned Monsters>
[Cthulhu, Rank 4 Shadow Otherworldly Aberration Spawn]
[Nyarlathotep, Rank 4 Huge Otherworldly Aberration Mimic Spawn]
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