<~> Chapter 212I slipped off the bed and cracked my neck. It was still pretty early but it wasn't fortable to y around in a bed stacked with so many people. I looked over at Man hugging Torien from behind while they both still slept. Bel was still sleeping but I could tell Mimi as always. She wao know if she should follow me but I waved her dowally. I think I wanted a bit of time to myself this m.
While g up my boots I decided to look over my status again.
[Status]Name: Lilith BaphometRace: Greater Succubus [Race Hidden - Dispyed as Beastkin (Sheep)]Gender: FemaleCss: [Novice Magian] Lv. 12Level: 50
Stat Spread:Strength: 100Vitality: 100Charisma: 10 (736)Luck: 20 (746)Finesse: 70Magitrol: 100Magic Force: 100 (160)Speed: 70 (90)Endurance: 10
Karmiergy: 7268
Unallocated Stat points: 0
Skills:Haggling Lv. 15Swordsmanship Lv. 38Illusion Magic Lv. 4Light Magic Lv. 11Light Manipution Lv. 12Uuna Riding Lv. 13Linguistics Lv. 10Ritual Magic Lv. 10Drawing Lv. 12Mana Sense Lv. 6Luck Magic Lv. 6Enha Magic lv. 8Flying lv. 7Intimidation lv. 1Internal Mana Manipution lv. 4Cartography lv. 1
Css AbilitiesMert Skill - CalcutionsProstitute Passive - Resist DiseaseProstitute Passive - MagigersProstitute Skill - Ease PainProstitute Skill - Freshen UpProstitute Passive - Tight FitProstitute Passive - Group DynamicsProstitute Passive - Go UnnoticedProstitute Passive - Resist SleepProstitute Skill - ter of AttentionProstitute Skill - Nightcap
Special Passives:Soulbound panionsSpecial drop rate upSightspeakDouble Down
Innate Abilities:Karmic RetributionBeing of Karma
Racial Traits:Succubus stitutionSexual Appetite Lv. 47Succubus Boer Succubus Shifting
Titles:[World Traveler - Hidden Title][in of Succubi - Hidden Title][Dungeoroyer][First Explorer][Early Intervention][Demon Hunter][Follower of Sorsette][Mother of the Succubi - Hidden Title]
The only thing that's ged is that I mao unlock the first level of Cartography. I wasn't anticipating learning it as a skill, through the system anyway, but maybe I shouldn't be surprised. It was knowledge that Sorsette's system reinforced so it made sehat there p skill. Maybe it was a little more surprising that there was aire guild supp people with the skill though. Thinking about that further, the cartography guild probably oed as a middleman for paper and ink supplies. Something I know firsthand is pretty expensive in this world. And I suppose a guarahat the freencers who are hired for cartography jobs know what they're doing, otherwise what would be the point of me receiving a certification? It did make me wonder how many other trade guilds existed though. Bcksmiths from what I've seen so far operate more like direct businesses despite also requiring a lot of training. Maybe it's a bit easier to tell when physical objects aren't made correctly than maps. I didn't really know.
That reminds me, I'll o go bad retrieve the sword Tenna made for me today.
I pulled my sketchbook and charcoal from my trunk along with the ritual magic book and my two notebooks before leaving the room. I don't want to bother anyone around the embassy so I sat o the window on the sed floor and began to sketch the courtyard from there. Just something easy to ter myself. I was feeling a bit mencholy I think. Everything has been so hectic tely. Things will probably only get more hectic when we end up st the sver's guild in a day or two. Wihorn never gave me a day, she just said she would inform me before they suppressed the colrs and give me a ce to storm the pce at the same time. It sounds as if we may not be the only ones participating based on the way she put it. Well, I suppose the cult of Amphores will be participating, that much is a given.
Soon there wasn't anything I really felt like adding to my sketch so I decided to move on. Something from memory instead. I started blog out the rough proportions of the twins. Nothing fancy, just a pose of the two sitting together. Let's see if I capture the energy that I ofteweewo. My versation with Torien has given me a bit to think about. Before she came to bed st night, she told me she talked with Silva a little. Only enough to tell her that she wao sit down and have a longer proper versation about where the two of them stand, but that she wouldn't be able to do it st night. If I had to guess, she was too emotionally drained from our prior versation.
The map hadn't taken me long to finish st night. It was sort of plex but I could tell why the map was only really useful as a test. Pretty much every possible map marker was on it but a lot of it ointless information. Stuff like, 'this area from here to here has a zero-degree ine.' It might be useful to put down that mark if there actually was an ine but it obviously oed to check a box. To make sure I knew what the marki more than anything else. Most real maps wouldn't be nearly as voluted. It almost felt like a bit of a letdown to have traveled all the way to the capital just for this, but I guess I'm here more for the certification than any actual training. Assuming I passed the measuremes of course.
After reading up on that part in the book he gave me I almost ughed out loud. The 'measurements' I would be required to take were hardly stific. It seemed like they were muestimates until a 'real' mapmaker revisited the site. I was essentially being traio get nothing more than a rough yout. I think with a smart application of ritual and light magic, I could get much more accurate measurements than the 'paces' and 'arm lengths' I was expected to take. I double-checked that these weren't something like 'feet' in imperial measurements where there is a specifigth despite the name of the unit but no, it's plete ballparking. Korrim really did mean it when he all but said that I would pass as long as I wasn't an idiot.
I looked over the sketch of the twins that I had drawn. I liked it for the most part but I didn't really nail the feel I was looking for. There weren't any obvious issues with the picture but it didn't really... capture their energy. It only looked like them superficially. I sighed ahe sketchbook and charcoal aside. I picked up the ritual magic book and started to thumb through the light magic se.
Light magi't as developed as ics but there were plenty of rune figurations for it. After looking through this book for a while I learned where ritual magibsp;es from. Nearly all of it es from dungeons. There have been a few instances of people doing the exact same thing I'm trying to do now, reverse-engineering and rebuilding ritual circles for other uses, but most widely used ritual circles are simplified dungeon ritual circles that were inally used for things like traps and i magi the dungeon. Eveual magic for ing, as simple as it is, is just a simplified ritual circle that inally was used to keep the floors of a dungeon of blood, sweat, and debris. That particur one just happeo be able to be simplified to the extent that a child could activate it. Dungeon researchers have been colleg these ritual circles from dungeons for a long time in hopes one of them will be useful, like the ing ritual magic everyone knows. As a result, there are a surprising number of ritual circles in this book derived from how the dungeoheir lights on. Benign ritual circles are literally embedded into the walls that determine how much light exists, whether the light ges over time like a faux day/night cycle, and many other reted things, all powered by the dungeon's internal magic supply. It also seems that a lot of the magical mps I see in cities use tinuously activated ritual magid use those mana stones you get from moo power them. This book is a rge pendium of ritual magic circles and pos from many different people's collected research. All of it is pretty fasating.
All of this meant though, that creating ritual magic to shoot a ser and measure how long the ser goes before its path is broken isn't actually that difficult to make with the pieces I have in this book. Since I kly the kind of device from my inal world that I was trying to replicate, it wasn't as challenging as it could have been to find the right pieces. I suspect that this idea is pretty novel in this world, otherwise someone would have already created it by now. Using simir means, I was also able to create ritual magic to create a ser level, get a plumb line, and even measure the degrees of an ine against the plumb li's quite fun bining pieces of ritual circles that were once used for traps and invisible tripwires with light magic for this purpose. It alss into perspective just how lucky we got in the midnight castle dungeon. Because the dungeon was so young it didn't have a lot of these magical traps and I'm not sure if me and Man see these with our mana senses. I'll have to ask her ter but I suspect she doesn't know one way or the other. I didn't get the impression that either of them had been in a dungeon before but I think I never asked. Succubi bsp;see magic with their eye transformation now but I don't know how that retes to the ritual circles embedded into the walls of dungeons and I never noticed anything like that when we were there. There isn't any information in this book on how the ritual magic was collected either.
It took me about four hours of experimenting with the circles to e up with w prototypes of the ritual magic circles. Eventually, the twins came out of the room to see what I to. Predictably Bel was still sleeping into the te m and Mimi wasn't in a hurry to get up so the two were still cuddling together. I could still feel them lying ihrough the bond.
"Good m, Lilith. Oh! Is that the ritual book? Did you make anything iing?" Man said excitedly.
Torien rolled her eyes and smiled before her eyes nded on the sketchbook I had left open. "Hey, is this us?" she asked as she picked up the book.
I smiled. "It is supposed to be you, but I wasn't too happy with how the sketch came out. And yeah, I've been w on some ritual magic to help me with cartography. The book told me to take super inaccurate measurements so I made these spells to make good measurements easier using these units here," I said pointing to a page he back of the cartography book.
Man looked at the cartography book and nodded. "Yep! That's what most shops use when they're trying to be accurate."
I looked over at Torien who was smiling down at the sketch.
"You like it?" I asked.
She looked up and blushed. "Yeah, I've never had anything like a picture of my sister and me before. You said you didn't like this drawing... have it?"
I frowned and scratched the base of my horn. "Well... it's messy charcoal and I don't have anything that act as a fixative so it'll probably smudge pretty quickly. Plus I don't want to tear it out of my sketchbook. How about I draw something for you in ink? It'll be less messy that way... I should probably see if I find some way to mihings..." I said trailing off while thinking through some of the ritual pos I had been studying.
Torien rubbed her arm awkwardly. "I... didn't mean to ask for something like that..."
I looked her in the eye and gri her. "I don't mind drawing for my friends," I emphasized. "For better or worse I just don't really want to give you that drawing is all. How about the two of you sit down and I'll draortrait? Something that won't get messed up as easily."
Man smiled at Torien and dragged her over. "e on Tori! Like you said! We've never had a drawing of ourselves before, let's not let this opportunity go to waste!"
I was happy Man was so gung-ho about this. Torien almost never asks for things. "Sit dowhere o each other," I said pointing to a pair of chairs. "I'll be right back!" I ran to my room and grabbed one of the journals I haven't used yet. It had hick paper, a bit like cardstock. The surface was made with ink in mind so even though the paper was thick, it didn't absorb too muk and had a pretty nice surface after the ink dried. I didn't have a pencil to work with so this would be a purely ink drawing. I don't think I've tried this kind of thing in this life but I for the challenge. I tore out two pages as carefully as I could and came back out to sit in front of the twins.
"Alright! Pose for me! How would you like this portrait to look? Are you two going to sit there still like boards or are you going to give me smiles?" I said enthusiastically.
I blocked in two drawings and got a feel for their expressions before telling them they could rex now. The two came over to watch me draw but I didn't mind. I'm not sure why but I didn't feel the least bit worried about people watg me work even though intellectually I would have thought that it might feel embarrassing. I just grinned as I worked owo ink drawings. I inteo draw one for each of them so I took my time going bad forth betweewo. This was also an iing challenge and not something I've done before probably, but it was kind of fun to develop two slightly different images at the same time.
I smiled when I looked down at the two pictures I had drawn. Since I had the models in front of me, I was able to capture the charm that had been missing. Man had a big grin on her fad had her arm over Torien's shoulder. Torien was looking at her sister with a sideways grin, slightly exasperated but happy and rexed looking.
"Lilith! This is perfect!" Torien said with ao-ear smile. "I have this?"
"Of course, Torien. I made these for the two of you after all."
I went to sign my name in the er and frowned. My fiwitched and I paused... almost remembering a name I had scribbled hundreds of times before. I shook my head and signed my new name.
Lilith Baphomet
Saine
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