Walking over the half cut corpse, Cecil hit it again, just to make sure it's dead.
Bundles of silk dropped from the corpse, in the shape of a snake, from its chest.
"Okay, if any of you find another one of these, Cut the snake inside them too."
Cecil said.
He noticed that his uh, Puppets? Things? Animations?
(What do I call them?)
His animations seemed to learn.
Blue Blitz learnt how to tear through enemies non stop after Cecil used its skill.
Red Rager also began boomeranging back in a curved arc.
Green Guardian was just. .
Cyrus is pretty understandable, he's basically a big cat.
Cecil gripped the Fist sized Chunk of Rose Gold.
It was ironically what Cecil felt like has the most potential, but it ended up being unused in the two buildings they had cleared.
The chunk of Rose Gold morphed into a thin and fingerless glove that reached halfway across his forearm.
He had something else he wanted to Know.
"Cyrus, do you have a skill?"
Cecil said, and turned around.
Blue Blitz and Red Rager were flying very closed to Cyrus like mosquitoes, and he was trying to swat them away with his Serpentine Tail.
"Nevermind. Everyone, let's go."
Cecil said, and turned around, walking out, The three Daggers and Cyrus following him.
———
Cecil pulled out one Breach Monster Spawner.
So far, he hadn't encountered anything that really made him feel danger.
The Arachnoform corpse did catch him off guard, but Cyrus was already alert, so even if it had attacked him, Cyrus would have saved him.
But that's exactly what he didn't want.
Because,
What was difference between him and his past self?
Being saved by Cyrus, and being saved by staff Interference in the Academy.
He didn't want to hide behind someone else.
He wanted to truly stand up for himself alone.
And that's why, he walked out.
Past the two cleared buildings.
Now he was in a sort of town square, with what was probably a water fountain in the middle, surrounded by 8 buildings, each 3 stories tall.
He looked inside the fountain, which was shallow, dry and dusty, and found nothing.
Just to be sure, he jumped inside, and began checking again.
And he found a small Lever.
When Cecil had pulled the Lever at the beginning, he had thought that maybe the gates were jammed.
He could see another wall and gate structure behind one of the buildings, and Cecil couldn't see another gap in the wall nearby.
So either this Lever works, or he might have to dig a hole himself.
Cecil grabbed the Lever, and pulled—
...
(Uh)
...
"Cyrus, pull the Lever for me."
Cecil said quietly.
Cyrus pulled the Lever, and Cecil could swear he heard something, but the door behind the buildings didn't budge.
"
Cecil then pulled out a Monster Spawner.
[Unclaimed Rewards]
[ 3x Custom Monster Schematics ]
[Claim?]
Because Cecil is not Level 200, he doesn't have an inventory, so as long as he doesn't claim these, he doesn't have to carry them around.
"Claim one."
Immediately, a Blue scroll popped up in his hand.
It really looked like a blueprint.
"How does this work?"
Cecil looked at the Black cube with a single Red eye shaped rune, and the Blueprint ass scroll.
He slammed them together.
He gently touched them together.
He wrapped the Blueprint around the cube.
Then he turned around.
There were 3 system notifications behind his back.
[Begin Creation?]
[Begin Creation?]
[Begin Creation?]
"Oh fuck you—"
He felt as if the notifications were slightly redder than usual.
"Let's go"
[Owned Schematics: 1]
[Create Custom] [Select Preset]
Cecil had no idea what he wanted. He just wanted to use the scrolls.
Logically, the first question would be,
What was he good at as a binder?
His class was Mastermind, so he needed to think like a Mastermind.
Something to help him scheme against people.
"Custom"
[Continue speaking.]
[This status window will update itself as you speak.]
[To end Creation sequence, say the alphabet.]
(Wierd, but okay)
"I want something whose focus is on extreme stealth and information gathering, and is undetectable for beings stronger than it."
[7288 Presets found]
[Custom: Not generated, insufficient description]
"I also want them to have something like memory transfer, and shared senses. And I want them to have a sort of mind control feature. And make them have two forms, one human, and one non human."
[7 Presets found]
[Cus—
"Their Non human form looks like... This!"
Cecil said and immediately crouched down, and began drawing something in the thick layer of dust.
A circle, with spikes on its edges(?), and what appeared to be a mouth in the middle. One of the spikes was larger than the others.
"The big spike will take a drop of my blood, and recognise me as its owner. The other spikes are basically weapons targeting the souls, and can be shot like darts."
[0 Presets found]
[Custom: Belid]
[Nightmarish creatures, shaped like a Barbed Disc, with a Mouth in the middle. Each of the spikes is a piece of equipment, called the Belid Soul Stabbing Needles. Each Belid has one Larger Spike, called the Binding Thorn. Whoever drops a drop of Blood in the Binding Thorn becomes the undisputed master of the Belid, and gains a telepathic connection with it. Higher Levelled Belid can take on a human form.]
[Confirm?]
What was his plan?
Make them fly around, and gather information for him, map out any dungeon he wants to explore.
Check every danger that might come his way.
"Yes. Confirm"
[Confirmed]
The scroll he had been holding disappeared into the Red Eye rune in the Black cube.
Cecil tapped the Rune with his finger.
And another Status window popped up.
But this one was Black , and had the same eye shaped rune in the Center.
[SPAWNER]
[LV 50]
• Silk Serpent [X]
• Belid [X]
• None [✓]
A new Interface.
"Well, then,"
Cecil clicked on the box beside Belid.
[0 units spawned]
[00:00:59]
Cyan Garden Academy had records about the spawners.
Each Spawner takes a set amount of time to spawn, which usually varies from monster to monster.
*Groowwll*
Cyrus jumped up, Tail tapping Cecil's back.
From the eight buildings, White Silk Snakes slithered out, from the buildings, from the doors, from the windows, and even from the statue in the fountain.
And they immediately surrounded a guy, a beast, 3 Daggers and a growing sense of unease.