Chapter 240: Chapter 240 – Long awaited reunion – Part 2.

"Your dungeon is well.... A treasure." – said Porai.

"Simple put, your dungeon pure value is beyond valuable."

"Not only it can produce metals, but all the monsters it creates posses mana crystals or mana gems."

"Not only that, but from what I was allowed to hear, your dungeon also produces high quality armor and weapons."

"And there is also this."

"The golems."

"You dungeon can produce golems."

"This alone already caught attention of the empire."

"They focus on producing golems to produce their own monsters."

"So the fact that your dungeon produces all necessary materials to produce some as well as some proper equipment."

"So, you were categorized as high value."

"...."

"But then, there was also this."

"The report about earth golem having some sort of ability to restore itself."

"It was reported that the golems possess some sort of special ability."

"And there was no special tool inside of the golem core or anything like that which could provide something like that."

"Your golems, are reportedly possessing some sort of unique abilities, without being in possession of the item with a skill."

["You mean Forged Skills?"] – asked Thauma by writing.

"The Forged what now?" – asked confused Porai.

["Forged Skills."]

["A power that I’ve had discovered with my research."]

["A created skill that isn’t like item skill, learned skill or the born skill, while at the same time being very similar."]

["A skill that affects the golem’s entire being."]

"..."

"Thauma. Stop right there." – said Ariva with serios expression.

"Something tells me that you have something important to say."

"And I want to hear in details, about what are you talking about."

"As well as the research you are talking about."

<<As Ariava asked, I’ve explained everything and to that vampire woman Porai.>>>

<<I’ve told them about my research.>>

<<About mana.>>

<<About ability.>>

<<And theory of power.>>

<<The evolution.>>

<<And giving a different form to the power instead of item skill.>>

<<Forcing the power into something that would not affect just some piece of equipment.>>

<<But instead a power that would affect the entire being itself.>>

<<A something that can be called fake learned skill or fake born skill.>>

<<I’ve told them about Forged Skills.>>

<<About how for months I’ve research the reaction, trying to give it the form that I wanted.>>

<<I’ve told them about my discovery of the Forget Skills.>>

<<About how I’ve focused a lot of time, researching and trying to make it "usable".>>

<<Before then I’ve finally archived the properly working prototype Forged Skills, which the earth golems that the invaders fought and the vampire mentioned posed.>>

<<It was their ability.>>

<<The Forget Skill that I’ve had made for them.>>

<<However.... Something was off... When the story ended.>>

<<Their expressions....They looked...>>

<<Conflicted?>>

"....What the fuck?" – asked Porai with shocked expression.

"W-wait! No! Stop!"

"Are you sure that this isn’t item skill?!"

["No. I’ve confirmed it."]

["They are similar, but at the same completely different type of skills."]

["Even this body that you are seeing right now, is currently using special skills I’ve forged myself."]

"BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE LOGICAL SENSE!" – shouted Porai.

"What are you describing is something that shouldn’t be even possible!"

"And yet you are telling me, that you not only made something that.... Well... It never existed before???" – said vampire who was beyond extremely confused, not knowing what to truly say.

"...Fuck me.... I wasn’t expecting that." – said Ariva with genuinely shocked expression.

"!?"

"Wait, it wasn’t YOUR doing!?" – asked scared Porai.

"No! I told you! I wasn’t here for years!" – replied Ariva.

"I didn’t do shit or anything."

"And I didn’t taught him anything related to THAT!"

"I did left him a tons of books!"

"But there was nothing like this!"

"I have no form of touch in any of this. Non!"

"This.... Wow...."

"I’ve lived for long time."

"I’ve seen countless skills; I’ve seen countless item skills and all sort of abilities."

"But.... This?"

"This.... Never existed before."

"BUT HOW CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?!" – shouted Porai.

"These!"

"THESE FORGED SKILLS!"

"THEY SHOULDN’T BE EVEN POSSIBLE!"

"Yeah... I agree on Porai on this one... There is nothing like there in the world." – said Ariva.

"And you just gave us a whole explanation about this whole thing like it was nothing.... Just explanation.... And you think it will work on us?"

"NO! IT WILL FUCKING NOT!" – shouted Porai who still couldn’t process the revelation.

"How.... I just..."

"Look!"

"You!"

"Thauma!"

"I get that from your story you wanted to give your golems ability and what not in order to make them stronger, and regular item skills weren’t doing it for you."

"But what you did!?"

"Change the nature of the skill itself?!"

"Of it being?!"

"Forge it into.... Into fucking something that is exactly the same, but at the same time completely different?!"

"You just straight up told the logic to fuck off!" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Like literally!"

"..."

"There are skills out there that can do some of the stuff." – said Porai as she revealed her bikini armor to Thauma.

"This thing I’m wearing here? It is called bikini armor."

"It looks prevented, but it has an interesting power."

"A full cover surface protection type skill." – said Porai as she took out some of her liquid metal and turned into the dagger, before then trying to stab herself a bit in the exposed area... But the damage that she took was barely anything.

"See?!"

"I BARELY TOOK DAMAGE!"

"Even though these pervy cloths only cover my private bits, they have ability to cover my entire body in protective layer!"

"There is also a guy that I know, that posses a special vampiric blade, that devours life and blood from the slashed foes and uses devoured blood to heal himself."

"Or there is also this thing." – said Ariva as she opened up her pocked space and took out a black necklace with extremely beautiful purple gems.

"This is a cursed necklace called Beastly Beauty."

"I’ve gotten this thing when there was some sort of shady group of mages doing some human experiments who knows when."

"Anyway, this thing is pure evil."

"It charms the beings to wear it and as they do, the cursed necklace infects the beings, turning them into abominations that carve for flesh."

"Simply put, monsters." - said Ariva as she put the necklace back into the pocket space.

"However, your Forget Skills, you called it?"

"They are something that never existed in this world."

"They are more like learned type skills or born type skills."

"Thauma."

"I don’t know what you truly understand what you just discovered and made."

"Or more exactly, how big of a impact would it have on the world itself."

"That is why we couldn’t get data properly!" – said Porai as she started walking in circles.

"The reports did said that there was something akin to a skill, but at the same it wasn’t it."

"That guy on the scene was never able to understand what the earth golem core was doing because it was never an item skill!"

"Holy fucking shit! Fuck me several times over with oversized dragon sized dildos and tentacles."

"What the fuck did I just discovered?"

"Ha....Hahahahahahaha..."

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HOLY SHIT!"

"WOW!"

"I get to agree with you gal." – said Ariava as she started laughing herself.

"What the fuck Thauma?"

"..."

["Did I do something wrong?"] - asked Thauma who was extremely confused and somewhat nervous.

"No! If anything! You did something incredible!" – said Ariva with a smile.

"You made something!"

"You obtained the first ever discovery like that!"

"You! Litle!"

"Motherfucker!"

"Archived something that just.... WOW!"

"I mean... I get the whole part about working non stop each day without rest, since you didn’t needed any since you don’t have biological body." – said Porai.

"But just discovering something like that and making it useful would take you more than few years! Maybe even decades!"

"You shouldn’t HAD discovered this just...."

"YOU OBTAINED IT WAY TOO QUICKLY!"

"AND THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY IT WAS WAY TOO EASY! NO!"

"IF IT WAS EASY! THEN ANYBODY COULD AT LEAST OBTAINED SOME HINTS!"

"BUT THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE THAT!"

"It just.... IT JUST DOESN’T SEEMS EITHER LOGICAL OR.... FUCK ME!"

"What the fuck..." – said the vampire as she tried wrapping herself in the discovery.... But being completely unable to stay calm.

"..."

"A new type of skill." – said Ariva.

"A Forget Skill."

"A skill you can attached to a being itself."

(And what she said is correct.) – thought Ariava.

(For countless years, there was nothing like that.)

(EVER!)

(There are item skills that can affect the user, mutate them, corrupt them, heal them, strengthen them.)

(There are skills that can affect the body.)

(This necklace can be said that it can corrupt the being itself, but it more caused by the mutations itself and not by the necklace.)

(It corrupt the body and mind.)

(But... What Thauma did is... Something far different.)

(And the fact that HE obtained this from research that lasted over a year.... It speaks too much.)

(Human research working 8 hours a day.)

(Thauma working 24 hours a day.)

(Thauma would do the research that should take 3 years in just a single year.)

(However, this?)

(Even for three whole years it shouldn’t....)

(...)

(God dammit Thauma.) – thought Ariava as she cracked a nervous smile.

(Just what kind of monster did I raised!?)

(Even if it was just coincidence.)

(Even if it was just a freaking luck, it would be still physical impossible unless HE was able to use that chance provided by luck.)

(That means... No matter what.)

(No matter if it was luck or not.)

(Thauma would had been able to discover it.) – thought Ariva as she gazed towards Porai who was still walking in circles, talking to herself.

"Thauma. I’m going to say this straight." – said Ariva.

"Your discovery was abnormal fast."

"Even though it took you months of nonstop research, it shouldn’t be physically possible for you to obtain the answer."

"However, the fact remains that you somehow did something completely impossible."

"Be it luck or not, you did something revolutionary in short span of time."

"Not only you discovered it in span of several months, but at the same time you also learned to like what? Somewhat ’use’ it? Not just apply it but straight up ’USE’ it? Oh boy.... You just straight up fucked logic right there mate."

"That is a truth."

"And honestly speaking?"

"An impossible truth at that."

"But yet.... A truth that is truly real."

(Did.... Did by any chance really screwed up big time?) – thought confused and worried Thauma as it observed two women’s reactions.

(I mean, the Forged Skills are nowhere near finished in my terms of basic level.)

(But still... They are acting.... Like this?)

(Did I really done something beyond my comprehension?"

"..."

"Yeah.... This will definitely take a lot of time to talk through." – said Ariva with exhausted look.

"But that we can talk about later."

"For now, let’s return to the current story."

"Hey Porai."

"..."

"PORAI!" – shouted Ariva as she wasn’t getting response.

"Y-yes!" – replied panicking vampire as she snapped back to reality.

"I know you are excited and everything.... And so am I." – said Ariva.

"But how about we finish your story first?"

"We can talk with Thauma later about this Forget Skills after we have some solid amount of time."

"But right now, let’s continue with the empire objective."

"..."

"..."

"Okay... I understand." – said Porai as she tried somewhat calming herself down, but had hard time doing so, forcing the woman to take few breaths before she could even try speaking once again.

"Where was.... Ah! The value!"

"The dungeon itself was consider as high value target and the mystery of the earth golems caught attention of wrong people."

"Simply put, they wanted to use the dungeon to somewhat get materials and possible even obtain some interesting data that they can use to improve the golems of the empire."

"..."

"Not only that, they were dead set on obtaining you."

"That is why they had deployed the Crow Watchers."

"Crow Watchers.... Are somewhat like a hybrid army."

"Several races, including vampires are part of it."

"However, all of them are strong, even the weakest squad."

"But... You exterminated the squad that was sent here."

"Even though they were the weakest, they were at the same time still extremely strong."

"Meaning, that they shouldn’t had been exterminated."

"..."

"The empire suspects you to be the one controlling each and every golem action."

"Not only that, some of my people that use golemancy suspect that there is a good chance that YOU may had been involved in the golems creations somewhat."

"So... There was order given."

"Take over the golem dungeon by any means necessary, including the boss monster of the golem dungeon."

["So, the empire, these Crow Watchers and adventurer’s guilds want to enslave me no matter what?"]

"Well... Not exactly.... Half." – said Porai.

"Let me explain."

"Do you know what the adventurer guild is?"

["I’m fully aware what it is and what they do. Organization of special mercenaries that takes on various tasks and mission, most often referred as quests."]

["Hunting monsters, material gathering and special commissions."]

"Okay, so you do know." – said Porai.

"Well... The thing here is.... Only empire wants you enslaved."

"But the adventurer guild just wants you dead?"

"Simple put, the adventurer guild, and the lord the territory where the dungeon is located is.... Well..."

"They are scared of you and they know you can do a lot of damage if you are left alone." – said Ariava.

"The dungeon taming, as you are aware, it is a process where the dungeon is kept under control and the monsters inside are slain regularly for the profit."

"However, the problem is that the whole empire isn’t solid existence yet and there are shit tons of stuff still needing to clean up."

"Wild monsters."

"Bandits and what not."

"Simple put, adventurers are needed everywhere right now."

"And they don’t have time to deal with taming you nor they want to take a risky approach right now of all the chaotic times."

"So, they went with most logical and best possible answers you can think of."

"Extermination."

"And.... The empire didn’t liked that." – said Porai.

"So, they took over of the situation and sent the Crow Watchers."

"The whole taking over the data and what not is just power of their authority."

"..."

["So.... Are you telling me that there was still chance at peace?"]

(Does that mean.... That.... I still had a chance at peace? And I just screw-)

"No." – replied Ariva as Thauma was about start blaming itself in its head.

"The way I see it, you really have no choice in the matter."

"Enslavement or death."

"No in between."

"..."

"By the way."

"Is it related to that whole massacre you did on those countless villagers?"

"I’ve heard all about it."

"..."

["I’ve tried obtaining the peace. I never wanted a war."]

["I’ve tried staying hidden."]

["I’ve tried talking peacefully."]

["I’ve tried being peaceful."]

["But it never worked."]

["And instead, they are coming after me."]

["No option was left for me but war."]

["If I wanted to survive."]

"Huh.... So, you are saying, you wanted to have a peaceful relationship with the empire." – said Ariava.

"But the moment it became physically impossible and they started attacking you."

"You finally realized that there is no choice but to fight if you want to survive."

"Is that correct?"

"Even if means slaughtering countless people who never raised their blades against you or never indented to."

"You wish to survive no matter what."

"Is that truly what you wish for?"

["Yes."]

["But at the same time no."]

["I never wanted to fight."]

["I just wanted to live."]

["I always wanted to see the world."]

["To explore it."]

["To understand it."]

["I wanted to be free and do what I want."]

["But."]

"..."

"..."

"..."

["The reality is against me. I can’t."] - written Thauma after a long pause.

(So, this is desperation.) – thought Ariva and Porai.

(He committed an act of massacre. A straight up genocide because he was just desperate to survive.) – thought Ariva.

(Well, it is not wrong to live.)

(Heck.)

(This guy is living in straight up hell.)

(He is a fucking "golden mine".)

(And the existence of the Forget Skills just now makes him a luxurious goods that kingdoms would murder over other nations to obtain.)

(His Forget Skills affect the golems. An object monster.)

(But.)

(What if you could give these Forget Skills to "people"?)

(Oh Thauma...)

(I don’t know if you somehow discovering these Forget Skills so early on was a blessing or a curse.)

(Since if we add all the values that you already possessed.... And on top of that if we add them possibility discovering the existence of the Forged Skills....)

(...)

(I don’t know how to say it.)

(But... Thauma?)

(You maybe royally fucked.)