It had been almost 6 months and Dean had been training with Chastiefol religiously in any and all of his free time between the night before a schoolday and bon school days ashe has already started his freshman year of high school.
Over the five months he recived multiple benefits throughout him increasing his template percentage.
At 75% he gained access to King's Fairy Wings. They were tiny, barely larger than a chickens, but after he got them, his power grew immensely. All his skills could be done even more effortlessly and he could use more forms of Chastiefol.
This included Form 10 which had never been shown in the manga or anime and what he saw was what had been theorized by fans.
Form 10 was the creation of three Sunflowers that could shoot separately or combine their attacks into one majorly powerful beam.
When he reached 80% he unlocked access to using the True Spirit Spear Chastiefol which increased his power tenfold at least and included the True Spirit Spear Forms which were more powerful than their prior forms.
At 85% he unlocked King's fully awakened adult form and his fairy wings fully grew. This came with another power increase and access to the Awakened forms of the Spirit Spear which were far more powerful than their predecessors.
90% didn't give him anything additional other than increasing his control over his new powers, same with 95%.
But, when he reached 99%, that's when everything changed.
*Ding*
[Congratulations Dean. You have reached 99% of your current template, to reach 100% a mission is needed to be completed]
*Ding*
[New Mission: Save the Fairy King's Forest-
The Fairy King's forest is threatened, use your powers to defeat the threat and save your home.
[Objective: Defeat the Albion attacking the forest.
[Note: Strength will be limited to what King had access to at that time, the only thing that will come with you in terms of additional strength are your stats, everything else will match King's body at that time so no wings or awakened power.]
'Are you serious right now Oracle?!?!? I can't defeat an Albion with that strength especially if i'm limited to not having what I have now to defeat it.' I said to Oracle as King was only able to kill the Albion when he got access to the True Spirit Spear.
[You will temporarily gain access to the powers Required, if you are able to use your powers to do more damage than the original King]
Reading the system window, I knew that this would be the hardest fight I'd ever have but after knowing that I only had to hold it off longer than the OG king before I would get the power to stop it, made me calm down and think about the things King should've done to fight the Albion.
As I'm thinking I suddenly find myself in a huge forest and sense the enormous power just outside the Sacred Tree that I am in.
'Damn, I have to fight it immediately, I didn't even get to prepare' I complained internally but planed to give it my all to fight this Albion
I feel it slash away at some of the forest and knew it was my time to step in.
I summon Chastiefol and change it to Form Four: Sunflower.
Before the Albion can attack again it gets shot in the head by a yellow laser causing it's head to fly back.
I appeared floating above Sunflower and saw that it was actually injured by that which it wasn't in the Anime which I attributed to my increased stats that I had from the system that King didn't have.
"It's good to see that hurt you." I say loudly to the Albion which seemed upset at it's attack being interrupted.
It immediately tried to shoot it's laser but I had already prepared two things, one to try something that King didn't try, and if that didn't work, I'd do the same thing King did to stop the laser.
"Status Promotion" I chanted.
Before the Albion could fire it's laser the wound it received from King's attack multiplied in intensity and a part of it's head exploded.
As it stepped back from the Injury I sent a laser from Sunflower at it's new wound which sent it tumbling back onto it's back.
'I may seem composed on the outside, but that's only because I know if I let myself panic, I'll die. In truth I am more terrified than I have ever been, I have never faced a monster like this. It's powerful aura alone makes me tremble, but if I don't defeat it, not only will everyone in the forest die, but I will never see my family again. I refuse to let that happen so I'm going to kill this stupid beast!!' I internally monologued.
I saw the beast going to get up and I quickly changed the form of Chastiefol.
"Form Two: Guardian!"
Aside from being incredibly resistant to physical attacks, it would allow me time to complete my next test.
As the Albion attacked Chastiefol in Guardian form that was flying around it, I felt I had finally made enough of a preparation.
I recalled Chastiefol and changed it back to Sunflower as it seemed to do the most damage. This time I didn't recall Chastiefol fast enough to stop it from firing it's laser and I was only able to interrupt it's attack.
The blowback from the attacks sent me flying into the bark of the tree, breaking not only my telekinetic barrier that I kept up at all times, but the bark itself was destroyed by the impact further showing powerful the Albion was.
I slowly floated back in front of the Albion clearly injured and I had a bloody wound on my head.
"I'm not going to let you destroy my homeland." I said King's memories making me feel protective of this place more than my own want to save the lives of everyone in the forest.
Seeing that it was the endgame, I had one more thing to try before I'd have to rely on the systems powers, I changed Chastiefol to it's Spear form.
"Bumblebee" I said as I cast the skill to have the spear attack the Albion rapidly from various angles but it didn't seem to do anything and I was smacked by the hand of the giant beast.
The attack broke through my barrier and I was falling down hurt immensely from the attack and I felt that I had various internal injuries.
"Increase" I said as Chastiefol turned Into a swarm of daggers which then attacked the Albion from all directions, but again it didn't do anything and the Albion launched another laser to send the daggers and myself flying back towards the Sacred Tree.
I continued to attack trying and failing to do more damage as I was getting weaker with each hit I was taking, the watching fairies began to cry at seeing my endless struggle wondering why I was doing this despite how they had treated me.
One final attack from the Albion sent my battered body toward the forest floor.
As I was falling, I heard Gerheade shout to me as she was flying up to help me and started to push me back down towards the forest, to safety, when the Albion attacked and sliced the tree in half.
Everyone stared in shock at the Sacred Tree being destroyed once again and Gerheade
knew it was even more important to get me out of there.
The fairies then flew past us telling me to run as they'd fight it in my place. Them saying that showed that they had accepted me as the true Fairy King, well accepted the OG King that is.
As I was being pushed I was telling Gerheade to let me fight as I wasn't sure I did enough damage to get the power I needed to defeat the Albion, when all the sudden my helmet flew over my head and time seemed to stop.
I saw him, Helbram, the best friend that King cared immensely for. I could feel it from his memories and I always loved their friendship in the show.
Helbram began to give me a heartfelt speech about not burdening myself with everyone's problems and just take care of myself and I couldn't help but tear up as I hadn't realized that I was already doing that in my actual life, taking on the burden of planning to stop all the bad things that would happen in the Marvel universe.
I'll try to find others who I can lean on in the future, but if I'm being honest I want to be able to do it, i want to save them.
Gerheade was stopped as I had held my body with telekinesis and stopped her from pushing me.
"As King I'm greedy, I want to be able to protect my home, I want to protect Everyone." I said passionately then I heard a sound in my head.
*Ding*
[It's time.]
Knowing what to do next as I felt a connection to my power again I activated it.
"Sacred Treasure Release!" I shouted and a golden glow began to surround me and Chastiefol pushing Gerheade away from me.
All the sudden a flash of golden lightning came off my body and struck Chastiefol and with it, Chastiefol began to change.
A giant Golden Spear appeared in the place of the normal Chastiefol in Spear form.
And for posterity I said the line that King said even though I knew that I actually only needed to think it.
"True Spirit Spear Chastiefol First Configuration!" I said loudly which caused the Albion to look over as it saw me and felt my power.
I then threw the giant Spear at the Albion which pierced it easily and then it exploded in a cross shaped red laser.
After the explosion dissipated, the Albion was slowly disintegrating and I was passing out from overusing my power only awake enough to confirm the system message.
When I woke up I was back in the warehouse where I had been practicing and had reached 99% and I was met with a slew of system messages.
[Congratulations Dean, you have completed the mission and have reached 100% of your first Template and will be rewarded for your achievement.]
[The actual benefit for reaching 100% is that your Template will merge with the host body and you will be able to use the template's powers without having to transform, this also ensures that you won't retain the physical racial characteristics of said template character while using their powers. i.e. wings, fur, scales, etc. Any and all characteristics will still increase the user's power, but will not affect the user's looks after the merge.]
*Ding*
[Received Title: The Beginner]
'Holy shit! I can use King's power without transforming now and I don't have to worry about sprouting wings? Hell yeah.'
[You have received one random template roll to use whenever you wish]
'I wondered who I'll get? Maybe another one of the sins, or one of the holy knights?'
[Please check Status]
'Oh right, I almost forgot'
'Status'
{Status}
[Dean Edwards]
[Race:Human/Fairy Hybrid]
[Title(s): The Beginner
[HP: 10,000]
[MP: 10,000]
{Template (s):
{Template(s) Merged:Fairy King Harlequin}
{Progress: 100%-0% Next Template
{Magical Ability (s): Disaster}
{Sacred Treasure (s): Spirit Spear Chastiefol}
'Oh I forgot I got a title as well. Oracle show me my title.'
[Certainly]
{Title: The Beginner: By achieving your first ever 100% with a template, all your subsequent templates will have a 5% buff in increasing percentage for the first 2 months of each new template.}
'That's awesome, now I can get stronger faster. Alright it's time to see the rest of my abilities and attributes'
My attributes had remained stagnant after the last time I added to them so I had built up plenty of attribute points to use. If I had known about the template mission, I would've added them before I reached 99%
I hadn't updated my attributes since I hit 30% of my template simply saving my points just in case and because I was already more than powerful for any enemies I'd face in the near future.
I'll look at my attributes as of this moment and add some of my attribute points.
'Attributes'
{Attributes}
[STR: 77
[AGI: 75
[INT: 300
[END: 72
[VIT: 200
[Unused attribute Points: 320]
Even with all my attribute points I still planned to save some for an emergency or for the 100% missions depending on which template I have at the time.
I wouldn't put it past the system to make me fight the Commandments as Meliodas if I get his template so I'll plan accordingly.
'Attributes'
{Attributes}
[STR: 127
[AGI: 125
[INT: 300
[END: 122
[VIT: 200
[Unused attribute Points: 170]
'Good, now every one of my attributes is over 100 points. This should be plenty depending on who I get' I thought to myself as I planned to look at my skills next and then roll the Template.