Chapter 436 - End of The First Round (part 1)
Chapter 436 - End of The First Round (part 1)
[Congratulations to Jake Wilderth for eliminating the Monsters.... Jake gains 4 reputation points.]
[Congratulate Carmin Liche on eliminating Monster Susan Burn. Carmin gains 1 reputation point.]
A series of announcements followed Daryl's departure, saluting their victory with well-deserved reputation points. Yet, Jake ignored the robotic voice to focus on the severed arm and leg before him.
Thinking back to Daryl's victorious grin, he couldn't help but smirk to himself. While the Fluid Master was reveling in the glory of having survived, Jake had surreptitiously channeled his telekinesis to snatch his Fluid Card. He was willing to bet that the old doctor would be bawling his eyes out in a few minutes.
Of course, he didn't check the contents straight away. He first collected the other Fluid Cards as well as any items in the Monsters' possession that he thought might be useful. He didn't stop Carmin from rifling through Susan's pockets either, even when she pulled out a strange parchment covered in golden runes.
Hearing Kewanee cough behind him, he also learned that the Native American woman had somehow made it through. Despite the severity of her injuries, Svara had indeed managed to pull her back from the brink of death.
"Don't ask. " The Nawai woman pleaded vainly as she felt his inquisitive gaze upon her.
"I don't need to ask. " Jake snickered.
Without a shred of empathy, he accessed her Oracle Status and checked her Logbook as well as her Aether Skills and Bloodlines. He already knew she had assimilated some sort of Valkyrie Bloodline, but he hadn't looked at her Skills in depth. After all, what could he possibly fear from a slave woman unable to disobey whom he had already defeated.
"Life and Death Reversal? " Jake probed after reading everything.
"Yes..." She looked down in disappointment. Her biggest secret had been revealed, just like that.
"Good skill. "Jake commented before turning his attention to Kewanee.
In Norse mythology, the Valkyries were minor deities who served Odin, master of the gods. The Valkyries, clad in armor, flew, led battles, distributed death among warriors, and took the heroes' souls to Valhalla, Odin's great palace, to become Einherjar. These heroines were destined to fight alongside Odin at the advent of Ragnarök.
In modern art, the Valkyries were sometimes described as beautiful maidens riding Pegasus, adorned with helmets and armed with spears. However, the Valkyrie's steed was not a Pegasus, contrary to some stereotypes. Rather, their mounts were hordes of wolves that roamed among the bodies of dead warriors.
These wolves were gruesome fighters. While the wolf was the mount of the Valkyrie, the Valkyrie seemed to be related to the raven, an animal that frequently appeared in Norse mythology and was known to hover over battlefields.
With the Oracle, it was impossible for a Valkyrie to be in the service of Odin or another Norse Earth god. Nonetheless, as with his first Ordeal inspired by Ancient Rome, there were some commonalities.
Svara's Valkyrie Bloodline was Grade 6, level 1. Unlike Jake's Grade 8 Bloodline, her Aether and Body stats did not have a higher growth potential than a normal human, but she did have a fixed bonus that multiplied her Body Strength, Agility, Constitution and Vitality by a factor of 6.