Fate Weaver’s Legacy
#105 – I’m unstoppable, chat!

I grimaced but otherwise stood unmoved with my arms crossed as the mental words of accusation hit me. Since I was prepared for it this time, it didn’t really affect me that much.

It still felt a bit disturbing… especially since one of things the demon ‘said’ now was something about me stealing his queen’s axe.

I mean… Kinda? It was just a copy though, wasn’t it?

Well, regardless, once he was done accusing me, he drew his sword, and dashed straight at me, just like last time.

But I still didn’t move, because I had already done this several times for the previous floors of the dungeon.

As soon as he was close enough, sword swishing through the air to decapitate me, a tentacle erupted from my shoulder at physics-defying speeds, curled around the sword, and stopped it mid-swing. In fact, the purple tentacle was so fast that it left behind afterimages… or so I would have said, if I didn’t know better.

From how my opponent stopped in his tracks, he was probably completely baffled by this development.

Too bad for him, my ultrafast tentacle didn’t stop at grabbing his sword and proceeded to curl around him before he could recover from the shock.

At that point, it didn’t matter how much he struggled.

He was toast.

I still didn’t need to even move. Not my flesh body, at least.

My axe self magically materialized right next to him, seemingly levitating. I slowly drew it back, positioning it to cleave his body in half, covered it in black fire, and then swung it as quickly as I could, all without moving my flesh body at all. Moments before the axe hit, I made the tentacles retract to avoid being cut.

My axe self cleaved right through the man like a hot knife through butter.

His two halves didn’t even hit the floor before turning into orange smoke and leaving a chest behind.

“Hmph! Pathetic!” I spat out, still totally into my role of an overpowered evil demon queen.

I could afford to mess around a bit since things had gotten ludicrously easy in this dungeon with both my axe self and my repaired gun self now, in addition to having enchanted the tentacle with the octopus’ skill.

My axe self had gotten me several new innate skills, and while I couldn’t appraise it since I’d swapped Appraisal out, I could still view my own status where the innate skills were listed.

Innate skills:

Hydrokinesis (Gift of the Weeping Phoenix)

Featherfall (Gift of the Weeping Phoenix)

Aquaport (Gift of the Weeping Phoenix)

Combination Breath (Dragon Blaster)

Immolate (Immolator)

Skill Snatch (Sealed ring of the larcenous demon queen)

Voidspeed Tentacle (Sealed ring of the larcenous demon queen)

Abyssal Domain (Demon queen’s Abyssal Cleaver)

Abyssal Spawn (Demon queen’s Abyssal Cleaver)

Demon Queen Flames (Demon queen’s Abyssal Cleaver)

Crystal Dragon Stomp (Demon queen’s Abyssal Cleaver)

This section sure was getting crowded… 

Anyway, other than Minor Hydrokinesis upgrading to just Hydrokinesis – probably because I could now create my own water, thanks to fusing the hydroveil – I’d gotten four new innate skills from my axe self, and Quick Fetch had been subsumed into one of them.

Abyssal Domain – Nearby area around you becomes your domain. You can sense anything within it using Intra, freely move and teleport your selected Soulbound item within it and back into it using Tempor.

This was without a doubt, the combination of Quick Fetch and the trident’s omniscience feature. I had been surprised that it had not only combined them, but essentially upgraded them as well, what with the whole, making my axe self float. But maybe I shouldn’t have been, since it had already happened with Minor Hydrokinesis being born out of simple swimming improvements and with Featherfall losing its hand flapping requirement.

The other skills were more self explanatory. Abyssal Spawn was my tentacle – which I had applied Voidspeed Tentacle to, and it had worked – Demon Queen Flames was the black fire, and Crystal Dragon Stomp was the crystal explosion – both of which I could now use even without my axe self.

All of that combined with how tanky I was thanks to my clothes self, and I was starting to feel pretty damn powerful. This dungeon stood absolutely no chance.

“Well, let’s see it then,” I said as I took a single step forward and summoned my trusty hypersonic tentacle to open the chest in front of me at blinding speeds. I would have probably broken the chest with how fast I’d done it if it wasn’t indestructible like the rest of the dungeon.

The chest revealed a chestplate made out of the same red metal as the sword I’d already gotten from this guy.

Cool…? I could maybe fuse it later, but I still didn’t know whether it had any interesting attributes and I didn’t want to waste Fusion slots.

Well, into the backpack it went then, to be examined later.

And that was that. Next up, the maid. For her, I had my other new-but-actually-old toy.

I opened the door, boldly stepped into the kitchen, my arms already uncrossed and ready to act.

As soon as the door behind me slammed, I summoned my gun self, pointed it at the far door from which the maid was already entering, and fired off a rocket loaded with crystal shards.

The maid skillfully dodged the rocket… but not the resulting shower of crystals that spewed out of the explosion.

I couldn’t help but wince at the sight of the countless needles piercing her, but didn’t stop myself from finishing her off. Before she could recover, I shot another rocket in her direction, this one filled with fire.

The rocket flew in its zig-zaggy pattern and landed straight on top of her.

The resulting explosion shook the ground as the flames surged out and consumed my adversary in her entirety.

Once the fire dispersed, there was only a chest left behind.

“This feels too easy, chat…” I murmured as I casually strode forward to get my loot.

Now, granted, spamming rockets like this used a ton of Ether, but the beautiful thing was that I didn’t even have to worry about Ether with my awesome superpillow.

I could just nap for a few minutes after every fight and I was golden. The time limit between the floors didn’t even matter anymore if I could fully recover way before it was up.

I opened up the chest and blinked in surprise at the loot.

“Oh, nice!”

It was one of the giant throwing stars the maid had used, all folded up to fit snugly into the chest.

I didn’t hesitate to grab the thing and try to figure out how the whole folding mechanism worked.

It turned out to be very simple. I just had to open the thing into its big shuriken form where the mechanism clicked and held in place, and if I wanted to close it again, there was a convenient little lever I had to push to open the mechanism, which allowed it to fold again.

“Neat,” I said with a nod as I played with my new toy, closing and opening it again. “Not sure how useful it will be though… I already have a gun and I don’t think I should be merging this into it…”

GonguuH:you could fuse it into the axe

GeorgeDoshington:no merge it into ur dress

I hummed as I made my axe self float next to me. I imagined my axe unfolding into a giant shuriken made out of four axes… and thought that would have been incredibly silly and probably very impractical.

Well, I would keep it in mind, but probably not something I wanted to do.

Into the backpack it went.

Next up, I pulled out my pillow, found an empty spot on the floor, and lay down for a bit.

“Alright, chat. Moment of truth… It does say permanently, but you can never be sure…”

After some brainstorming with chat, I’d decided that I wanted the space bending skill the assassin guy had. Not that my aim was particularly bad or anything, but having aimbot on my shots meant that even if the enemies were too fast or I had no time to aim, I could still hit my targets.

But in order to steal that skill, I had to drop the one I currently held, the Voidspeed Tentacle.

And so I popped my enhanced supersonic tentacle out of my shoulder again and carefully watched it as it left behind afterimages…

“Here goes nothing, chat!”

I dropped the skill.

My tentacle didn’t change.

I waited for a few seconds… then a few more seconds… but other than no longer having the option to enhance a limb, nothing happened. My one tentacle still was ultra fast and all the others were normal.

“...It works, chat! Oh boy, I can’t wait till the water park dungeon cools down! Then I’m gonna go in and totally rob that octopus blind!” I exclaimed with a gleeful grin.

GeorgeDoshington:fuck yeah

GeorgeDoshington:the next stage of murderhobo

SpoOo0oOon:poor octopus :(

repeaeaeat:he wont know what hit him

A few minutes of discussing on how to best rob an octopus, I got up from my super pillow feeling refreshed, put it back into my backpack, and then pulled out the Truth-seeing Goggles before approaching the door.

“I really hope Ether vision is enough. Don’t wanna fight the guy with eyes all around the place…” I mumbled, thinking about what I’d had to endure while figuring out the whole tentacle thing…

I opened the door, activated Ether-vision and boldly walked in while looking around for threats.

As soon as the door behind me slammed shut, I spotted the orange glowing humanoid shape jump from behind the wall and speed their way toward me.

He was very fast.

Faster than my supersonic tentacle though?

Hah.

No.

As soon as he got close, my trusty tentacle burst out of my side – where he’d been aiming to stab me – and restrained him in the blink of an eye.

I smirked at him and crossed my arms to assert dominance.

He reacted by flicking the knife in his hand from his restrained position and it stabbed itself into my thigh.

“Ow! Fuck! You…!”

I hopped on my good leg a few times before glaring at my adversary, and activating Skill Snatch.

Three choices presented themselves to me once more and I immediately snatched the one that bent space.

The effects were instant. From one moment to another, I felt drained, both physically and mentally… although it didn’t feel as severe as the other times I’d snatched skills.

Probably because I’d restored my Ether and Intra with the pillow earlier and barely used any for this fight.

With that out of the way, I summoned my axe self again, and just like with the other guy, sliced the jerk in two just as I retracted the tentacle.

The two halves of the orange shape in my Ether-vision landed on the ground and then suddenly melted into the surroundings. The orange got less and less intense as it diffused with the surroundings and eventually merged with the slightly orange air all around me, leaving just the chest behind.

Huh.

I’d already known this to an extent, but it was still interesting to watch as the dungeon reabsorbed its spawned monster.

“Well, that’s that!” I exclaimed and pulled out the pillow again.

The ground here was dust and dirt, but at least it was softer than the kitchen floor.

Sorta.

Kinda.

Well, not like it mattered in the face of my super pillow.

I settled in to rest and recover and in the meantime, checked the skill I’d just snatched.

[INNATE] skill: Guided shot (imitation) – Bend space to prevent your attacks from missing by using Tempor.

Upgrade: Slippery ✔

Upgrade: Ranged Melee (LOCKED)

Slippery – Bend space to make attacks miss you using Tempor.

“Ooo, nice! It’s not just an accuracy buff, it’s also an evasion buff! That’s even better than I thought!”

It shored up both my offense and defense. What else could I wish for?

The only downside was that it used Tempor, which I’ve needed more and more often lately.

Regardless, this ought to make me even more unstoppable than before.

I smiled in satisfaction and dismissed the windows before turning to my side to pull out Mr. Gargles.

“So…” I said as I snuggled with Mr. Gargles while laying on my pillow. “Last time, I took a peek and the room looked pretty final boss-y, so I’m hoping that that’s it.”

On the other hand, chat had pointed out that the first three fights here dropped a small chest, the next three fights dropped a regular-sized chest, and this fight had dropped a boss chest. If that pattern held out, there would be two more boss chest fights before it would finally switch to the final boss chest.

So three more floors… Or five if there were three final boss floors. Which didn’t make sense, but hey, I still didn’t quite know how these dungeons worked.

When my headache faded and I felt filled with energy again, I got up from my pillow and marched my way over to the chest to see what juicy loot I would get this time. Last time were the ninja spider sandals that had led me to my first secret boss. Would this time be something cool as well?

I spawned several tentacles this time – these weren’t enhanced, however – and made them open the chest.

A waste of Ether? No no, this was totally necessary, because of the cool factor.

Once open, the chest revealed a single item inside.

It was a holster.

About as long as my forearm and large enough for me to reach my hand inside it. It was also completely enclosed and nothing stuck out of it, so obviously, this wasn’t a holster for a gun.

I hummed and gingerly grabbed it, having a pretty good idea about what this was.

I popped the thing open and looked inside to see… nothing. It was empty.

Wow, what a scam.

That’s what I would have said if I didn’t notice the subtle Ether pathways inside the pouch.

So, I did as the natural thing, reached my hand inside it, and poured my Ether into it.

As expected, a throwing dagger – or kunai, as chat insisted – materialized in my grip. I pulled it out of the holster and examined it.

It looked like a pretty mundane dagger – kunai – but the holster still seemed pretty useful in a pinch. After all, the ether needed to create one of these was a lot less than even the a simple water bullet from my gun self. Hmm…

I pulled out my goggles again and turned on Ether-vision just to see… yup, the kunai was glowing with Ether far more than any inanimate object should. This was literally an Ether construct.

…Kind of like the dungeon monsters. Huh.

I shook my head and then did my best ninja impression, tossing the dag– kunai into a nearby target dummy across the clearing.

The kunai hit it, stabbed through, and a few seconds later, it dissipated into Ether.

Huh, neat. It even cleaned up after itself.

GeorgeDoshington:perfect murder weapon

GeorgeDoshington:doesnt leave evidence

I snorted.

“Yeah, I guess if this whole streaming thing doesn’t work out, I guess I have a bright future in assassination, huh?” I immediately joked, before instantly regretting it.

I was supposed to come across as harmless, so that people wouldn’t come after me when I returned to Earth. Why the hell was I even joking about being an assassin?

“I’m joking, obviously,” I clarified. “I’m not gonna go around killing people. Just dungeon monsters.”

Some chatters didn’t believe me from the look of things and I had to ban a few who got a bit too aggressive… but whatever.

“Okay! Anyway! Let’s keep going! Next up is maybe the final boss! Let’s go, chat!”

I put the holster into my backpack… before caving in to chat’s demands and instead tied it around my thigh, and then proceeded to walk to the door from which I’d come.