The Ruined Death Knight
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[Status]

Name: Haruki Shiro

Level: 45

Race: Mana Tainted Nagaiki Oni

Class: [All Knowledgeable Magic Caster Lv. 51]

Sub-Class: [Adept Highborn Oni Vessel Lv. 31]

Health: 7200/15500

Mana: 17500/ 19680

Attribute points: 0

Attributes: Strength: 85 Agility: 120 Intelligence: 734 Endurance: 309

Talents: [Demon Kin Oni] [Long Lived] [Demonification] [Mana Veins (Advantage)] [Mana Grow Endoskeleton] [Mana Influenced Grow Body] [Hasten Mana Growth] [Mana Vision] [Demon Mana Eyes (Incomplete)] [Demon Mana Heart (Incomplete)] [Demon Mana Influenced Muscles (Incomplete)] [Magic Genius] [Natural Mana Sense] [Third Mana Sense] [Mana Sensation] [Affiny of all Natural Elements] [Survivor of Body Vitality Exhaustion] [Mental Mind Fortitude] [Pain Resistance (adept)] [Quick Caster] [Protected by Sword Master] [Apprentice of Death King]

Skills: [...] [...] [...] ...

[Remark: A Oni Demon who has been once engulfed by an extraordinary amount of mana when she was little. The fact that she stayed sane and alive is a miracle to behold by itself. This Oni Demon hosts an amount of mana that shouldn't be normal and with her potential of magic, her potential is terrifying for any magic caster to imagine. Though that is if she were to survive with all this mana inside of her. A true anomaly in its own right.

"What the..."

'Hell am I seeing right now?' Danzel finished internally in shock.

Compared to his status, Shiro's own status was close to 3 times bigger than his very own.

Albeit his talents and remark had much more content than hers, the number of skills and spells that she had was at least +150 if not more.

He could at least count 20 spells of a certain basic elemental and a few more unique elements such as light. He recognized a few spells that were of the 2nd-tier and a couple of other lower-tier stuff, though that was the minority of them.

The only few elements that she lacked were darkness and death. He suspected a few of the dark elements, but there was a complete lack of death and holy type of spells.

But what truly surprised him wasn't the number of skills and spells that she had.

No.

He had seen other magic casters with a similar amount, though not with so many talents.

What truly shocked him was the fact that Shiro had more mana than himself.

A 4th-tier being.

Though he wasn't focused on magic, the fact that he had more than 500 attributes in intelligence and that he was gaining a large amount of stats from the stat multiplier, the fact that she had more mana than him was...abnormal.

And watching the blue veins where he felt mana flowing through around her body to turn black made him suspect that the cause of her pain was due to her mana.

'The remark also points at the mana in her body to be the problem, but why?' Danzel thought as he went and started reading her talents to find some clues.

[Demon Kin Oni] was her race talent which had various bonuses like higher senses, greater regeneration, and its own stat multiplier, which were of the 1.2.

The next one was [Long Lived] done nothing more than increase one's lifespan in the cost of fertility rate.

[Demonification] was the talent that he suspected Agares used to grow his horns and become stronger.

Once Danzel realized it was a buff of some sort, he went to the next talent as he realized that Shiro was losing [Health] with each passing second while also having all her attributes increasing too.

Reading through her next talents of her, he was surprised to recognize them.

"She has the same talent as that Kayn kid, but compared to his incomplete version, she seems to have advantaged..." Danzel mumbled as he read the details.

[Mana Veins (Advantage)]: A vessel that has been saturated with such a huge amount of mana, that the flow of mana through the veins is 400% times greater than usual and the flow speed of mana increases by 200%. Additionally increases the effectiveness of positive effects on ones by 50%.

If Danzel could frown, he would already.

Based on the talent name and its effect, he was sure that the black veins were because of this.

'Though the effect is more positive than negative, is that not the cause of her pain?'

Going through the next talents to see what the problem was, he soon enough found the problem.

[Mana Grow Endoskeleton]: The vessel has been saturated with such a huge amount of mana that the growth of the vessel's skeleton has been forced to accelerate its growth in order to evolve into greater heights. Attribute gain depends on growth. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

[Mana Influenced Grow Body]: The vessel has been saturated with such a huge amount of mana that the growth of the vessel's overall body has been forcefully accelerated to make the vessel have the required flesh to hold upon the huge amount of mana. Attribute gain depends on growth. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

[Hasten Mana Growth]: By having content such as a huge amount of mana inside one's body, the total mana is increased by the growth of the vessel. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

[Demon Mana Eyes (Incomplete)]: Eyes that have been saturated with such a huge amount of mana, which resulted in the channeling of mana to be much more easily done in the eyes. Additionally, increase the Intelligence multiplier by 0.1. If fully developed, the pair of demonic eyes will make for a high-tier ingredient for alchemy. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

[Demon Mana Heart (Incomplete)]: A heart that has been saturated with such a huge amount of mana which resulted in the channeling of mana being much more easily done in the heart. Additionally, increase the Intelligence multiplier by 0.2. If fully developed, the demonic heart will make for a high-tier ingredient for alchemy. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

[Demon Mana Influenced Muscles (Incomplete)]: The muscles of demon kin have been saturated with such a huge amount that each muscle channels passively mana, which forces the body to evolve and grow. Additionally, increase the Intelligence multiplier by 0.4. Increase of attributes based on growth. Can only be activated if the vessel has enough vitality in her body to support the growth. Can't result in death.

...

Danzel continued reading through the talents with incredible speed thanks to his large amount of stats and being left confused most of the time.

He understood that Shiro currently was experiencing something like accelerated growth which explained why her attributes were increasing. He could also attribute her pain to the hasten to grow of hers, but he still failed to see why she was losing so much health.

The talents stated they will only activate when she has enough vitality, but the longer he watched, the better he understood that Shiro's accelerated growth isn't going to stop any time soon.

Though, when he read [Survivor of Body Vitality Exhaustion], he realized that something was wrong.

[Survivor of Body Vitality Exhaustion]: Someone who survived having one's vitality drained by one's very body own body to the brink of death itself. Wherever one experience growth where the body couldn't support or has one's vitality being drained constantly with a meager amount left, it's a miracle that one survived. You experience death only after your health is at negative 105%. If reached negative health, you will be weakened.

Though he found it interesting that negative health was a thing, his entire focus went towards the "Wherever one experiences growth where the body couldn't support" line specifically.

That's when he realized what was happening.

He quickly used [Eyes of the Damned] and saw how Shiro's body was greedily eating her own vitality to hasten her growth.

"Her own body is eating her alive." Danzel cursed out loud before raising his hand and activating the runes of his gauntlet, resulting in an ominous dark green glow appearing.

'It wasn't that her talents had some kind of negative effect. It was the exact opposite!' Danzel though was unsure of what to do.

The core problem of the whole situation wasn't the talents that accelerated her growth. As they stated that they won't suck Shiro's vitality till she died.

The core problem of this was the [Mana Veins (Advantage)] talent.

Though seemingly harmless with pure positives, that very talent was actually killing Shiro! As the talent increased the effectiveness of all positive effects by 50%.

And since the talents that made her grow were deemed as positive, her growth has been increased by half the amount that it was supposed to be.

It was as if there was an error in one calculation. The original talents that made her grow calculated the basis to drain around 60-80% of her own vitality to hasten her growth. But that was without calculating the 50% increase from the [Mana Veins (Advantage)] talent.

It was as if her own body was trying to chew more than it could, even if it meant killing itself by doing as such.

He tried drawing her vitality back with the [Rune of Eniv] from his gauntlets to guide her vitality away from the areas where she was growing.

Though it helped with easing Shiro's pain, that was Danzel buying time as her body will seek and drain her vitality to fuel its growth.

And the [Rune of Eniv] itself wasn't perfect on its own.

Albeit the rating was [Perfect] by itself and Danzel was activating and deactivating the rune constantly, the fact that he pulled bits of her vitality out of her body was worsening the situation.

"This is bad..." Danzel mumbled as he watched Shiro's vitality grow weaker by the second.

'She is going to die at this rate if I don't find a way to restore her vitality.'

"Shiro...use your healing magic." Danzel said while gazing at the crying Shiro with a serious voice.

"At this rate, your vitality will be exhausted. You have to use your magic. I...I don't have the means to heal you." Danzel said with his ice-cold yet serious voice.

Danzel waited for her to use her magic, albeit, by simply watching the state she was in, he realized that she could hear a single word, forget about casting magic.

He focused his entire mind on not drawing out her vitality and also disturbing portions of the vitality of her body, alas he knew that it was a matter of time before Shiro...dies.

Danzel racked his mind trying to remember if he had anything useful inside his storage rings, though he very well knew that there was nothing there to save a life.

Only weapons, books, magic crystals, and some magic items.

'That's why Agares worked as a mercenary for Velkir. It was because he could treat Shiro from this thing. But now in the middle of nowhere, how am I supposed to treat her when I can't use holy and light magic?'

'Maybe one of those natives had the ability to use this kind of magic, but all of them seem to have died. And that girl that I met had little to no mana. She also probably run away...' Danzel thought as he watched around with his [Eyes of the Damned] seeing no one but Shiro with vitality remaining.

"Dammit...if we came earlier and killed those ice trolls, one of the natives with healing magic could have been here." Danzel mumbled as he suddenly remembered something when he started working with Gerak the dwarf.

Of how someone sold a potion made out of ice troll blood to make one's body tougher to some noble pig.

Also, Shiro's talent that wrote of her body parts being an alchemic ingredient made something click inside his mind.

"You two! Bring me the body of an ice troll! One that still has lots of blood remaining!" Danzel ordered Koji and Niyuki with an oppressive command that gave no room for talking back.

Not that they could anyway.

The two reacted accordingly and dashed toward the corpses of the ice trolls. Niyuki went and picked up the crushed ice troll by gravity magic and Koji went to carry the one that he killed on his own.

And soon enough, the corpses of ice trolls were on the side of Danzel.

Raising his hand, he touched the blood of one of them.

[Ice Troll Blood]: The blood of an Ice Troll, having endured the relentless cold, their blood holds properties of toughing one's body while also containing the regenerative attribute of trolls. An alchemic ingredient sought by many alchemists.

"Though it's raw, it should be better than dying." Danzel mumbled as he utilized the knowledge of [Blood Puppets] to control the blood itself and slowly drain it out of the ice troll's dead body.

He then used [Blood Sense] to see the condition of the blood and push away the blood with lesser quality that has been dirtied or gone bad. Only keeping the "fresh" blood in the air.

His control over blood was less than ideal, which resulted in him dropping bits of the "fresh" blood to the ground, but with the amount of blood that the huge bodies that an ice troll had left enough room for him to waste some blood.

Once he concentrated the blood to form a ball, he guided the ball of "high" quality ice troll blood in front of him.

And then he raised both his arms to the sides of the ball.

Making him look like an ominous undead cultist with the dark green glow of his gauntlets and his flaring eyes together with the ball made out of the blood.

"Hope that this works, kid." Danzel said before slowly drawing the blood like a small stream and guiding it inside Shiro's mouth.