Act 1: Deimos’ Profession?
ACT 1 Deimos’ Profession?
The player’s pet ‘Deimos’ has reconstructed all the parts of his body!
Usually the undead is formed because of a strong grudge or a curse. These are the sources of their power, making them jealous of the living. The undead cannot live anywhere because of that hostility. Unfortunately, Deimos’ evolution wasn’t completed because of the roughly assembled body made of cheap bones. But now it can be exchanged for 208 bones and the ‘Perfect Skull.’
Now that all the parts are fused together and is optimized to fit the body, Deimos will get a chance for a new evolution.
‘Roughly assembled? Cheap bones?’
Ark’s face distorted oddly.There was the old saying that said people should not bite at sore fingers. Ark also felt that way about his pets. He had lovingly cared for his pets. He gave them good food and built them a body. Educated them and treated them like his children…….
But even though he treated them well, his children didn’t act the same way. As the parent, he put a lot of affection into raising his children. Although Dedric was a little careless, he was a cunning fellow with a strong survival instinct from his childhood as a bat. Radun was always wound around his waist and never caused trouble. On the other hand, Deimos was just a skull when they met for the first time. He had no skills except for rolling around. Didn’t he used to be thrown at monsters in order to deal some damage? Ark was the one who made him a complete skeleton body. Of course it was no easy task. He had to memorize a book JusticeMan lent him on the human body for several nights. But was that all? He looked through hundreds and thousands of skeleton bones for pieces that would fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in order to create Deimos. Deimos was truly Ark’s creation.
‘Has any other summoner suffered so much in order to raise their summon? But it is not all bad. I’m filled with a sense of pride when I look at what I created.’
He secretly felt proud whenever he looked at Deimos. But now he had to suffer through the disgrace of his hard work being called a loosely assembled body? He felt furious at an information window for the first time. No, it wasn’t just the information window. Even though Ark made it with difficulty, Deimos didn’t like it and decided to just get rid of it using Bone Collecting? To the extent that he completely changed 208 bones? He had accepted it since changing the bones meant raising his stats, but now Ark completely felt betrayed.
“Deimos, it’s good that you might evolve……but were you so miserable that you had to change all the bones?”
“Oh, have you finally realised Master?”
Dedric sensed the mood and teased as he approached Ark.
“I told you so from the beginning. From the very first, this guy did not like the body that Master endured so much suffering to make. In order to obtain a stronger body, he was pretending to like it while patronizing you. He is that type of guy, a cunning child! Although he appears outwardly loyal to Master, you really can’t trust the undead. Don’t you know they only think about bones?”
Dedric smiled as he continued bad-mouthing Deimos.
“I didn’t want to mention this, but do you know how many times I’ve heard him swearing at Master?”
Clack clack? Clack clack clack clack!
Deimos was astounded and rushed towards Dedric. However, Dedric expected it and quickly hid behind Ark.
“Look at this, he’s revealing his true colours! He’s trying to cover up the truth! He said that Master was a tyrant who treated us like trash……cough, M-Master?”
“This child, did you think it was settled?”
Ark grabbed Dedric by the neck who immediately screamed.
“C-choking! Why are you doing this? I’m just repeating what that skeleton said!”
“Do you think I’m a fool? If you want then I’ll really throw you in a body bag and use you as dog trash!”
“Eh? Is that so?”
Dedric became frightened and avoided Ark’s eyes.
“Hey, why are you scared? I just gave you an example.”
“Oh, really?”
“You’re not angry? Master’s heart is like the sea. It is spacious.”
“No, I am a stingy tyrant who treats you like trash.”
“…..Master, you knew?”
Dedric faked a pitiful expression.
However, Ark just nodded with a cold look.
“I know very well.”
“Dammit, whatever! I’m free to say whatever I like so just get it over with!”
Dedric desperately lay on the floor and closed his eyes. There was no need to bother describing what happened afterwards. When Ark showed an upset countenance, Dedric immediately took the chance to drive a wedge between Ark and Deimos and was punished for it.
Ssak ssak ssak ssak! Clack clack clack clack!
Ark was also Radun’s dad (?). Radun became upset at Dedric’s words and stepped all over his feet. In addition, Deimos also smacked him with his shield before he evolved. Thanks to Ark and the two summons, Dedric was crushed in a matter of seconds.
“Waaaah, okay, I’m the bad guy.”
Once Dedric was in a critical condition with tears dripping down his face, he huddled in a corner and shouted.
“Bah, Deimos, you hit me as well? Are you already acting so arrogantly before you even evolved? Don’t be ridiculous. You’ll see in the future! I’ll soon evolve into a great pet. When the time comes, neither you or Master will be able to treat me like this!”
“At any rate, that guy……”
Ark smiled sourly and shook his head. So far, Dedric’s abilities have never been lower than Deimos’. Since he evolved first and was punished more often, he ended up eating more new dishes than Deimos. Thus he was always ahead. But now the situation would be reversed when Deimos evolved. Dedric didn’t like this. Dedric was cunning but that was his limit. So his behaviour was understandable.
“Well, he has to evolve anyway.”
Ark stared at Deimos.
Since it had come out of nowhere, it still hadn’t sunk in. In fact, Ark thought that the evolution of pets was only available through a Magic Sword. It was the reason he often browsed the auction site for Magic Swords. If he could evolve his pets then he considered buying it. As his pets were important, Ark was determined to evolve them.
‘But I never imagined that he could evolve in such an unexpected way…… Will he evolve into something different from the Magic Sword? Or did he have to evolve first using Magic Sword before evolving through different methods? Will it also depend on the pet’s stats, skills or alignment?’
He was unsure about what would happen. It was one of the bad things about hidden professions. A hidden profession was different from normal classes. All information related to that profession was unknown and had to be discovered first hand. Ark had no choice but to play it and learn. This was particularly true in regards to his summons. Of course, New World had other professions with the ability to summon.The main professions were necromancers or shamans. Initially, Ark looked at their information as well. However, both professions were completely different from Ark and his summons. For a necromancers, summons were just like disposable items for them. They could summon a large amount but once the duration was over then they disappeared. The concept of growing their summons didn’t exist. By growth, he meant raising their skills and stats.
For a shaman, they were similar to Ark in that they summoned a spirit and raised it. However, the spirit grew when the user’s related skill grew. In other words, if the shaman’s summoning skill reached intermediate then their spirit would also become intermediate. So the information on necromancers and shamans weren’t useful for Ark at all. Anyway, Ark’s profession was not focused on summoning. So the Dark Walker’s complex pet system felt like a significant penalty. But he soon saw that there was some merit to it.
‘I thought it was natural to give my pets battle training…….’
That wasn’t the actual case. The necromancer’s and shaman’s summons had no will of their own. If their master didn’t give a command then they wouldn’t move. When their stats rose, they could learn a few simple patterns. But they couldn’t participate in a battle on their own like Dedric and Deimos. In addition, using food to raise stats did not work.
‘Their ability to grow and think is also an advantage.’