Fanfic (Azarinth Healer)

Chapter 1 - Not Kansas

Today was the day. I'd waited so long for this I was practically jumping in my seat in the waiting room. I even wore my black sundress and my purse. Nothing could stand in the way of that sweet sweet euphoria. The door opened and a nurse called my name, my real name. "Raven, were ready for you." I shot up and kept myself from sprinting over.

So you'll understand my confusion as when I walked through the door I was no longer in the clinic. Huh. I looked around seeing an ancient stone hallway.

'ding' 'You have entered the Temple of the Void dungeon'

"What the fucking fuck just happened." I said out loud as I peered down both ends of the dimly lit hallway. A faint torch burned an eerie yet super cool purple flame. Okay calm down girl. You're just in some random ass RPG dungeon instead of the doctor's office. That's totally normal and not something I should have a panic attack over. My breathing became very stressed. I put all my focus into getting it under control when I heard something.

A strange muttered whisper came from down the creepy hallway. My breathing halted as I froze in fear of whatever was making that noise.

A small black blob with sharp white teeth oozed towards me, like some Lovecraftian nightmare.

[Voidling - lvl 3]

'ding' 'Congratulations! You have learned the general skill [Identify]'

Okay is that mmo level 3 or dnd level 3, cause I'm like a level 0 human. The absurdity of the situation really cut the panic, that or I had gone insane. It was hard to tell. At least it didn't look strong.

The thing was like two feet from me before I got enough of a grip on myself to move. Instead of running like a person with a self-preservation instinct, I grabbed the fancy purple torch and brandished it like a flaming club. The thing got closer and I smacked it with a torch. Its form distorted and it used a pseudopod to strike back hitting my arm. A tingling started that turned to pain as my skin started to slowly disintegrate. Very slowly I might add. I backed up and kept smacking it, over and over again. Eventually it went down.

'bing' 'You have learned the general skill Void Magic Resistance - The mystical magic usually used to enchant high level items applied as a form of combat magic. It's as deadly as it is silent. Congrats on surviving, as very few ever do. - lvl 1'

Void magic it was void magic. That meant there was magic in this world, and if there was magic then maybe I could magically transition! Yea Raven you got to look on the brightside of having been isekai'd. You didn't just lose contact with your friends and family forever, and get dropped into a violent hellhole. You're gonna get magic and transition and have fun adventures, and definitely not die horribly and painfully.

I sat down because my legs had grown weak. I pushed my thoughts in the direction of magic fantasy world and away from the awful reality of the situation. I needed to sort my priorities. First I needed access to my stats. "Status." I said like a chump. I ran through a few such words but no dice. I next tried thinking of my name and that worked.

Looking it over I had the potential for two classes. My stats were probably all at the base amount. My status menu used my real name and not my dead one so that was hella validating. The numbers on the Hit Points and stuff was clearly MMO numbers, so expect exponential increases. Oh and I had a mana pool which means learning magic is very on the table.

Reflecting on my skills it was clear that this world was a learn things by doing them sort. So if I wanted to do magic I had to try and practice magic. How the fuck does one practice shapeshifting into a girl? Hmmm.

Okay I had felt void magic, I can work with that. I have room for two classes so the first one is gonna be my staying alive class and the second can be my turn into a cute girl one. I was great at sitting down and thinking about things. In fact I spent most of my life in my own head!

So I tried meditating on that feeling of void magic. I also knew sitting around wasn't going to wear me out and make me hungry and tired, so survival multitasking. I spent a lot of time like that. I think I started to feel it but my memory of what the magic felt like was kinda fading a bit. Oh and I was hungry.

Time to explore. I picked up the torch and decided to try my identify on it.

[Enchanted flameless torch]

Wait this thing is flameless. I poked it. Yea that was just a magical light. Neat.

On to my exploring. I walked through the labyrinth of hallways and saw some weird black root growing through the stone. Time to identify.

[Void Root]

I wonder if its poisonous. I poked it. It had a familiar tingle but very faint. I touched it with my tongue. Tingly and it tasted like nothing. I bit a tiny piece off. Tingled all the way down, but it definitely had some juice too it, and substance. I munched on it until it started hurting. My Void Magic Resistance hit lvl 2 in less than a minute.

I found a small room off to the side and used my fresh and active void magic sensation to practice my void magic some more. I spent time alternating between the training and munching on that void root. My hit points stopped going down once I hit resistance lvl 5. I still had 32 HP. After another while I was able to focus the magic above my right hand and a small black dot appeared.

'ding' 'The void root has changed your body permanently.

You grow more resilient +5 Vitality.

The flow of your mana was changed +10 Intelligence +5 Wisdom.

You recharge Mana at a faster pace +20% mana recovery rate.'

That's great for having slowly killed myself with the only thing to eat around here.

'bing' 'You have met the requirements for a class change: Void Initiate - Manipulated mana into a void for more than thirty seconds. Void magic resistance lvl 5. Has consumed dangerous substance Void Root.'

'The Void initiate is an advanced form of void based mages. A mage who has endured the void to become attuned with it. She controls the void to remove that which displeases her.

'Would you like to change to this class. Bonuses and skills will be applied after doing so.'

Fuck I just got a class for being good at void magic. I wonder if it was this easy to pick up classes for everyone. I thought accept really hard.

Okay I was not expecting that much. I read over that last part. My body was changed by magic which halved my weight. I jumped bumping my head into the 12 foot ceiling. Shit it really did make me lighter. Also mana regen acted as health regen 1 to 1. I could already feel the damage done by the creature and my food healing.

Time to use some fucking MAGIC! I started with my void skill because I'd kinda already practiced it. The first difference is rather than a small dot it looked like I had formed a baseball sized black hole. I threw it at a wall and it tore a hole through it before the magic dissipated. I created another and then tried moving it with my void manipulation. I put it in orbit around me like a green shell in a certain racing game. I even managed to modify It into fancy shapes. Like rings, boxes, a spear which I then hurled at the same wall.

Okay time to try displacement aka teleportation. I started with a rock and willed it to the other side of the room and it went there. Being the impulsive girl I am I tried moving myself next, and wow that was disorienting. I almost threw up my root stew.

'ding' 'Void Initiate has reached level 2. 5 Stat points awarded.'

I could level up from just messing around, that was going to make this a lot less dangerous.

I played around a bit more though I had burnt through a lot of mana doing so. Eventually I was getting sleepy so I decided to stick to my 'meditation' room and get some rest. Hopefully none of those voidlings snoops around in my sleep.

So a voidling tried to eat me in my sleep. I woke up to a ping saying I'd hit void magic resistance lvl 6. I shoved it off of me and then with clarity of mind used my void magic to destroy it.

'ding' 'Void Initiate has reached level 3. 5 Stat points awarded.'

I wish this room had a door. I tried to get more sleep but it wasn't coming now that I had a valid paranoia of being eaten in my sleep. I gave up and just messed with my stats. I had 10 points to spend.

Alright Wis and Int were essential for magic so they were getting a boost. Vitality was good for not dying, and dexterity and endurance couldn't hurt to put points into. Strength sorry but you're going to be my dump stat.

My nice multiples of five were gone, and it hurt. Except you strength, you'll always be a five. Since I wasn't sleeping I might as well eat more void root and explore. I could now eat sizable chunks of root without much discomfort, and I made sure to spend mana so it'd regen and heal me. I also noticed something odd. My chest felt mildly sore. It was weird because I hadn't been hit in the chest so I was lost as to the cause of it.

I kept the torch for light but for creature encounters I stuck to practicing my void magic. I had several 'fights' that day. It felt weird calling them fights when I could kill them at range, and teleport back if they got too close. It helped they were slow and stupid.

My pokemon instincts were telling me to grind a bunch of levels, and my rational mind said it was probably safer to level up before running off into some big monster that'd one shot me. I gave in and spent the next 3 'days' there was no sun down here. I turned my phone off to conserve power since I doubted this world had phone chargers. So I couldn't even use that to keep track of time.

Over the course of my light grind and intermittent breaks I leveled my skills, and sat and dwelled on thoughts that I shouldn't. I looked through the notifications.

Well meditation was going to be super important for healing. My resistance and skills gained a few levels and I was finally bored enough that I was willing to go beyond my familiar corner of the dungeon.

I found some stairs a few whiles later. The went down, which meant deeper into the dungeon which was the opposite of safe. On the other hand, new stuff plus more magic training. Also, it'd take a longer to find the stairs up.

In my long line of stupid decisions that somehow worked out this was going to be moved towards the top of the list. The voidlings were higher levels down here most now in the 9-16 range. Those weren't that big of a deal, they just took a bit longer and moved a little faster. The big deal was when I saw a humanoid silhouette but it was walking around. Oh and it had tentacles on its back.

[Void Walker - lvl ??]

It was so high of a level I couldn't even see it? I teleported away and found more Lings' to crush. I started having two void orbs orbiting me at all times for quick access. It also made me feel bad ass so yea.

Unfortunately while kiting a high level 'ling (keeping out of reach and hitting it) I teleported close to a wandering Walker. It attacked. I got pincered by both and teleported away but they both pursued. I used my singularity to root both of them to the spot and hurled void motes at them.

The walker reached its long ass tentacles out so I amped up the singularity to max strength. The walker was stronger and pushed further forcing me to back up far enough the singularity ended and it lunged followed slowly by the ling.

The walker wrapped me in its tentacles tearing me apart with void magic. I displaced it away without me and displaced myself even further and killed the voidling. The walker charged and I formed the biggest sphere of void magic I could and sent it down the hallway. Slamming into the walker and swallowing it like a black hole

'ding' 'You have defeated [Void Walker - lvl 32] - For defeating an enemy twenty levels or more above your own, bonus experience is granted.'

'ding' 'Void Initiate has reached level 9. 5 Stat points awarded.'

'ding' 'Void Initiate has reached level 11. 5 Stat points awarded.'

I immediately meditated to heal off the damage. I'd gotten so good at avoiding harm I forgot how much pain hurt. Unfortunately my clothes didn't heal and now my dress barely covered me. I was exposed, my masculine body was exposed. I broke down for a while from that, just bawling my eyes out. All the emotions I'd put a lid on burst forth and I could not handle it. If another walker had found me like that I'd likely have died there. Not because I couldn't get away but because my will power had been spent.

Fate seemed to still have plans for me because I had plenty of time to calm down without interruption. My dress still had enough left to continue wearing though not by much. My purse's strap was broken as well. I tried out my new storage skill on my phone and wallet storing my sentimental items before they too were destroyed in some fight.

Spending points and watching my numbers go up became my primary source of motivation. This was the same obsessive motivation that a lot of predatory games worked on, and it sure as fuck worked. I spent the next week farming lings and practicing before I faced another walker. It was tough but I knew its moves, and my teleport skill was even better. By then it only gave one class level on a kill. After that I added walker's to the diet and made sure to keep my void sight up to avoid another accidental ambush.

Eat, grind, meditate and sleep was my new life. When I finally emerged from this hellhole I was gonna be insanely strong.