664 10/11 8:41 (Autumn, Day, Midrar)
Luna circulated her Astral Ichor within herself and her Mates, gradually and slowly refining the way that they moved their Energies and enriching their body and Soul by letting them take in her own Essence, efforts helped along by Amber passively using Energy Siphon.
Amber's and Sabel's Auras surrounded the four, the Lunarian's Will sustaining their efforts and directing all the Burden of continuous Aura usage right to the white-haired one herself, allowing them both to gain experience with the Skill while relaxing.
At the same time her Will hid the four, forming a protective and isolating layer that completely suppressed all Energy, sounds and heat from escaping its reach.
Her Familiar-holding Artifacts started to float before her, being gently enveloped into globes of Astral Ichor, each Costing 10 Motes and needing three hours and around seventeen minutes to fully Recover this expense, transparent flames enveloping the six masses as Luna used her Creation by Annihilation to change her previous Artifacts in a more advanced version.
Writhing Astral Ichor devoured the masses, concentrating and refining their power and Materials, burning away the impurities into pure power and condensing it all together in more intense versions of each other.
"What you doing?" Sabel's voice slurred out, the sleepy Human waking up and watching upwards, their other two Mates having long since fallen back asleep under the comfortable warmth of Luna's Will. "Pretty flames." She sounded out, surprising the Lunarian as her eyes observed the transparent flames working on the Artifacts.
"You can see them? My invisible flames of creation? How?" She asked, her curiosity brimming even more intensely, well aware than extrasensory abilities should have been needed to percieve them and that Sabel did not posses any.
Luna immediately borrowed her sight, trying to see if her eyes were the reason, yet finding nothing strange.
Her Mate's ability to perceive her flames were not derived by her sight but by some other sense that she would interpret as her vision. "How are you able to see them? You should have no Skill, Vow or Artifact that would let you do this and their heat is not reaching us." She wispered, curiosity burning brightly in her eyes.
Simultaneously within her shadow, her Astral Ichor crushed her Iridescent Blood Artifact, activating Everlasting Ascension and integrating its effects into her Authority and converting the rest of the Energy and Materials involved in the Artifact into 100 Magicules.
The red-eyed one gently petted the black-haired one's head, lulling the Human back to sleep, her Artifacts and Familiars gradually advancing and merging together in a single whole, the massive amount of Energy forming her Astral Ichor forcing them to grow in an instant.
*The Rank of Luna's Familiars and their Skills are Maximized.
*Luna's Familiars Gain the "Artifice" Skill at E-Rank.
Luna smiled, feeling her flames extinguish themselves now that their job was done, her Senses focusing on her six Familiars floating above the four of them.
Silently they used their newest Skill, sign of the fusion between them and the Artifact previously holding them, to turn back into Artifact identical to their other component, joining back with the Lunarian.
She felt the changes in them and herself immediately.
Because they no longer had a Familiar to function as a Vessel to, their base Effect allowing such was devoured.
Thanks to ArcaneArmageddon, the Effects that allowed her to use their Attributes at the equivalent of 100% Affinity was completely meaningless and so was substituted by an Effect that increased the Limit of her Affinities to 110%.
All other Effects of the Artifacts were retained and enhanced, especially those belonging to Core.
The Enhancement: Domain increased from E to D-Rank while the quantity of the Skills that she could borrow increased in Value from three to five, reaching up to a C-Rank Skill, five E-Rank Skills or one D-Rank and two E-Rank.
In addition to that each of them gained an extra Effect.
Starting from the most simple of effects, her Spirit now increased the Potency of all Status Alterations she would inflict, Vision shared with her its own Senses-based Skills, Third Eye of Physicality and Soul Sight, Ash formed four long tendrils of bright red flames moving on their own around her and similarly Blitz distorted the conductivity of the area around her, increasing the efficacy of her own electricity while disrupting Enemies' own.
Once fully adapted to her new Senses, thing not hard for her to do considering the immense amount of data she constantly recieved and analyzed from her already present ones, she concentrated on the two heavier Effects.
Warden now passively added a new Layer to all of her Barriers.
This simple addition changed everything as it would mean that each of her Barrier would need to be broken twice, effectively doubling the Damage Mitigation of its first Effect and vastly increasing her defensive- and control-focused abilities.
Core's Effect was similarly as simple but devastating, allowing her to Create two simultaneous Domains, in her case a Domain based on two different Skills, thing that while costly would vastly increase the upper limit of her combat ability.
Luna nodded satisfied for right now, returning back to sleep with her three Mates, uncaring of the fact Aurora from inside her would have been able to watch her progress.
After all, chained by her mentality as that one was now, she would never become someone worth considering.
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664 10/11 10:23 (Autumn, Day, Midrar)
Sabel happily moved forward, her Aura flaring brightly in spurts around her, the Human enjoying the feeling of her newly-acquired power, her Unique Skill repeatedly activating and deactivating in concert with her rising excitement.
"How curious. Your Rebellion is surprisingly reactive for a Skill at E-Rank." Luna noted, her crimson eyes and Senses analyzing the Skill's feeling.
"Is it that strange?" The black-haired one asked, turning around from the front, her Unique Skill flaring up along with her attention without any control at all.
"Yes. Your Skill should be similar to my own in nature but where my own needs concentration, even if a small amount, to activate. Yours instead is constantly activating with no effort at all, without you even recognizing it activating." Amber pointed out, causing Sabel to start and look around herself, noting her Skill's activation. "See? It makes no sense at all."
At the Phoenix's protests, Luna merely smiled, amusedly watching as Mafel joined in the teasing of their Mate. "What a curious event when in a group composed of a Demonic-blooded Phoenix, a Monster turned Elf and a Human, it is this last one the most bizarre." She mused aloud, her purple eyes narrowing in a couple of slits.
Sabel protested immediately, her Unique Skill flaring even more intensely. "I am not that strange! I am just a Human with Status Alteration Immunity!" She blurted out.
"Yeah, sure, a Human with-, wait, what do you mean Status Alteration Immunity, didn't you have just the Resistance one?" The Spiritual Elf asked, her eyes blinking a couple of times.
"Yeah but when I woke up before, it had already Evolved." Her words were said casually, as if they weren't worthy of notice, causing Amber and Mafel to stop immediately.
"You are truly the most singular one between the three of us. Skills don't Evolve like that!" Amber protested, her long life and the stories from her mothers allowing her to easily be certain of the rough limitations of Skills and the System itself. "And how exactly is it that you were able to Awaken a Unique Skill with no psychological distortions? Especially considering how your Soul is far from strong enough to handle an Awakening with no problem."
"Why do you ask me, I've no idea?! Luna is probably responsible!" Amber defended herself, unexpectedly feeling herself under emotional assault and trying to shield herself by pulling forward the Lunarian.
"No. While I planned on helping stabilize her if needed, it was unnecessary. Somehow, she maintained complete mental stability through her whole Awakening. It was quite surprising." Luna corrected, her eyes glinting full of mischievous curiosity. "It was quite strange, really."
Sabel, seeing the way her three Mates looked at her, all of them very interested in working out how exactly she functioned, shivered, starting to run forward to try and dodge or at least postpone the three's incoming interrogation, embarassed more than anything else.
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