Storm Tide Online

Episode 10

Xetar and Udon both grip my shoulders and release their essence into me to calm the fire inside of me, what once felt like a eternal flame is now a slight burn. I turn my chi to ice attribute chi to calm the flame further, the burn becomes a dull throb in my heart as my pores open and absorb the magic around my immediate area as two system notifications ding in my ear. I focus the magic I'm absorbing into my core to expand it to the Refined chi stage of martial arts. "How do you feel master," Xetar helps me up from my lotus position.

"Like I'm one with magic," I answer.

I look at the two notifications, the first one says, "You have become a half-step minor god, what is your dominion?"

What should my dominion be: elements, energy, the military, blacksmiths, alchemy, or maybe war. "Xetar, what should my dominion be," I ask

"That's up to you, but if I had to pick since you started a guild," Xetar takes a moment to think, "a guild needs blacksmiths and alchemists, but you will have wars and battles with other guilds though."

"You need to get more god essences if you want to be a god of more than one thing," Udon tells me, "but for you should go for war."

I nod, "system, I choose to be the Demigod of War."

A black aura appears around me as I open my status menu, 

Aura of War

This aura empowers your strength 100%, your guild and party shall be empowered 50%. Your enemies shall weaken 75%.

This aura can be upgraded with 2 mana stones.

"Xetar, how do you get mana stones."

"You need to synthesize magic shards or kill high level elemental monsters," Xetar answers.

"Let's head back to the guild," I pull a guild return scroll out from my bag.

I pour my magic into the scroll which causes the scroll to burn, a magic array appears above me as it sucks me in with my gods to the guild residence. Fang and them have really been recruiting members, what level is the guild at anyways. I swipe my menu down and click the guild tab, wait the guild is already level 3, we can recruit a total of 5000 players. I open the ranking list next, i'm at number one with a level of 17 with Fang behind me as level 16. The guild rankings lists my guild as first at level 3 with another guild at rank 2 called Jadehoods, and Crescent prophecies as rank three. I walk to the Guild's headquarters that has expanded some more, I pull up the guild headquarters's information to see we have our own forgery, alchemy lab and rooms for players to rest. I do have a few forge designs and alchemy recipes in my Book of The Oracle, I head to the forgery first and rent a forging room. The guild needs good low level armor, I look through the oracle book to find a armor set called the Pharaoh set for mages and another set called The Gaia set for warriors. The pharaoh set requires sands of time, pharaoh's soul, and magic gold which means I would have to travel to a dungeon most likely and with the strength of guild right now that seems a bit high leveled for us even with the High Gods and I, we would have a hard time. I have to build a expert guild team, I open my messages and send my friends a request to list some guild members that they would recommend to the elite team. Fang replied first with a thumbs up, I type a reply back and ask if we can level together. He sends me his coordinates as I begin walking to his location that was a rather dense part of the wintry forest, the cold was enough to freeze sweat in an instant, I'm losing a point of health every second. Why would Fang-an Assassin come here, he has lower resistance than a priest. I see Fang and other guild members in the distance killing a humanoid monster with blue skin and frosty hair.  I call upon my earth magic to create a bow of wood with a string made of magic, I nock a ice  arrow in my bow and fire at the monster, who was mid swing at Fang. The arrow finds its home in its shoulder. I activate WInd Step to get close to the beast and unleash a quick combo of slashes with an flame imbued slash across the monster's chest as its status called it the Frozen Yeti and listed it as a male, so he has a gender. I though it was non-binary, this game needs to revolutionizes its gender assignment. "Rylan, can you help me  distract him while Sinor casts his Flame Prison," Fang asks.

"What do I do," I reply.

"Help me keep him steady and still," Fang tells me.

I form a magic seal under the Yeti and shape my magic into the frozen below the monster, I focus the magic into icy chains that constrict the Yeti's body, but I feel my stamina and magic weaken. This seal is taking a lot of my magic and concentration, I have to keep the spell up or we may suffer a party wipe, a red magic circle appears below the Yeti too. Soon, a flaming cage appears around that slowly tightens around the yeti and eventually kills the monster that becomes particles, leaving behind 6 items, 3 of which were equipment while others were consumables.

Frozen Fur Boots

level 25 pink rank

Only for mage and priests

+10% agility

Frozen Fury- The power of frost permeates the boots harness the frost to increase agility 50%. 

Boots made from The Frost Yeti's fur that has absorbed its cold blood to form the perfect defense.

Frozen Blade 

Pink Ranked short sword

Frozen Slaughter- allows the user to draw upon the Frost Yeti's power over frost to deliver combo to immobilize and weaken your enemy by applying a five second freeze, 35% reduction to movement speed and attack speed.

"Can I have the sword," Fang asks me.

"How many contribution points are you betting," I respond.

"100 points," he holds up a finger.

"Okay," I deduct the points from his guild account and give him his sword that he eagerly swings at air leaving behind a sharp cold wind, we have a future expert that will add greatly to our strengths.