Apocalypse Gamer Ch. 2 (Marvel/Elder Scrolls/DxD)

After being swallowed by a white light, Elijah found himself standing in a pentagram in the middle of a small group wearing black robes and hoods. They were kneeling on the ground around him, hands pressed together, as they channeled magic into a barrier that separated them from him. 

"Hold, demon," another robed man stepped forward from the shadows. Elijah couldn't tell where he was, but it was dark and devoid of all-natural light. The large cave system they were in was illuminated only by some torches and candles spread around the floor and on the walls.

"You don't look like a typical lesser demon... What is your name?" the shadowed man asked.

[I wouldn't answer that. Names do actually have power in some places...] the system warned.

'I'm only a little stupid and gullible when it comes to women, thanks. The rest of the time I'm as paranoid as the best of them! I can tell these guys are bad news. Who couldn't? Look! There's a fucking skull in a sconce on the wall! How cliche are these guys?' Elijah was pretty sure the system would hear him if he thought directly at her, and he was right!

[Want a crash course tutorial on how to use magic? It looks like this lot were probably trying to summon and enslave you or something. You're going to have to fight your way out.]

'Oh? Am I? Thanks for that brilliant observation, System. What would I ever do without you?'

[Wow. You're kind of a dick, you know that?]

'My filter turns off when I'm in stressful situations. Are you going to start being useful?'

[Alright, host. No need to get your panties in a twist. Let's start with the basics. You know all the Skyrim spells by heart, yes?]

Obviously. Who do you think I am? I spent thousands of hours modding Skyrim.

[Modding? Not playing?]

'Hey. Ask no questions and I'll tell no lies. No need to make things personal. Magic, please?'

[Wow, he said please. It's a Christmas miracle. Your spell library comes preloaded with all the Skyrim spells. Just think about using the spells and move your magicka, dipshit. It's not hard.]

'I fucking hate you.'

"I do not appreciate being ignored, even by one as alluring as yourself, demon," the robed man spoke up.

'Alluring?'

[Sigh. Your new body is... attractive, I'll give you that. We don't have time for you to look into a mirror and preen right just now. After this, I promise we'll find a nice pond so you can bask in your own narcissistic reflection. Does that sou-]

Elijah tuned out his belligerent system. He was definitely going to teach her a lesson at some point.

[Hey! I heard that!]

She really didn't know when to stop, did she? Elijah was sure he'd end up teaching her many things before she fully learned her lesson. Did his system have a physical body?

[Gasp! I'll never let a lustful fiend like you near my real body! Keep dreaming, host!]

'Did you just say gasp?'

[Shut up! Here's a quest, dummy! Good luck trying to stay alive~]

[Ding! Emergency Quest Issued! Escape! You have been summoned by an unknown cabal of sorcerers with nefarious intentions. Reward: Level up!]

"Enough of this! Listen here, demon! You will submit to our will!" the robed man demanded, tired of being ignored. The robed sorcerers all started chanting at once. Elijah felt a slight pressure on his mind, but whatever magic they were attempting slid right off his ironclad mental defenses. Gamer's Mind for the win!

Elijah wasn't going to give them a chance to do whatever it was they were doing, so he quickly allocated his free stat points and readied himself for battle. His magicka thrummed beneath his skin, growing agitated as he prepared himself to use magic for the first time.

[Elijah Volkihar] 

[Gamer, Pure-Blood Vampire, Son of Molag Bal]

[Level 1]

[Health: 150/150]

[Magicka: 200/200]

[Strength: 10]

[Agility: 10]

[Vitality: 15] 

[Intelligence: 20]

[Luck: 6]

[Free Stats: 0]

[Skills: Gamer's Body, Gamer's Mind, Spell Library, Inventory, Observe, Fast Travel, Hemokinesis, Compulsion]

Five stat points went into vitality and intelligence, each. It looked like one vitality or intelligence translated to ten health or magicka. This boosted his current health and magicka reserves by quite a bit, and Elijah was sure he would be mostly focusing on those two stats for the foreseeable future.

It didn't matter how strong or fast he was if he got killed by any errant attack that dealt enough damage. He only had one life. Probably. He'd be strong enough to bench press a truck or outrun a cheetah eventually, but he wasn't in any great hurry. Magic was way more interesting, in his opinion.

Elijah prepared two spells, one in each hand. From what he could tell, the barrier his captors were using to contain him was rooted in the pentagram at his feet. First, he blasted the ground with frostbite, the lowest level frost magic.

Ice streamed from his hand in a torrent, quickly covering the ground around him. The pentagram wasn't too large and was completely covered within a couple seconds.

The sorcerers were shocked and frightened. Not only had Elijah resisted their binding that would have made him their slave, but he was also using magic in a pentagram that was designed to cut off summoned demons from their home dimensions. Lesser demons had the same drawback as mortal sorcerers in that they couldn't use any powerful demonic magic if they couldn't access their dimensional energies.

Unfortunately for these little magic users, Elijah's magicka was housed in his body, and wasn't an external source of power that he could be blocked from reaching. He turned his magic on the barrier which began to freeze and crack.

While the sorcerers were frozen in shock, it only took a few seconds until the magical barrier physically restraining Elijah popped like a soap bubble. Before they could react, Elijah unleashed the powerful chain lightning that he'd readied in his other hand.

A bolt of lightning leapt from his outstretched fingers, impacting the closest sorcerer and jumping to two others. The lightning ran through their bodies like liquid fire, tearing them to pieces from within. Their flesh charred and cracked, blood nearly boiling from the heat.

Elijah waited a couple seconds for his magicka to refill while the sorcerers scrambled in their terror. The leader managed to get some spell circles up and glowing around his hands, for all the good it did him. The minions were nearly tripping over each other in their haste to escape from their not-so-trapped demon, making them perfect targets for the lightning rune that Elijah slapped down in front of them.

With a shrieking, electrified magical explosion the rest of the sorcerers were reduced to charred corpses, including the big boss man who was too cool to chant with his crew but smart enough to know running probably wasn't an option. Sorcerers they may be, but they still had weak human bodies, apparently.

[Ding! Quest Completed! Reward: Level up!]

"It's over? Just like that?" Elijah asked incredulously. He walked over to the blackened bodies, double-checking to ensure they were dead.

[Indeed! Humans are rather squishy, you know. Magical lightning? That shit will mess you up. They didn't stand a chance.]

"How anticlimactic..." Elijah muttered. His first ever fight was over before he could even begin to enjoy it. How boring. Honestly, what a drag. He hoped his future battles would be more interesting, or else he might have to take an early vacation to become a cloud-watcher.

[He's like a battle-hungry Shikamaru...]

"Hey. I resent that," Elijah scowled. "There's more to me than my desire for a good fight. I also love to fuck!" The system scoffed at her host, but she did have to admit that he had a point. Elijah was more suited to be born as some sort of Viking raider rather than a 21st century worker drone.

[You're right. I take that back. You're definitely not smart enough to be Shikamaru.]

Elijah ignored his system yet again and put his mind to figuring out just where exactly he'd ended up. All he knew for sure was that he wasn't on Tamriel any longer.

"System? Any idea where we are?" Elijah asked.

[Nope. Sorry, host. I'm not the omnipotent type of system. I have some powers and abilities of my own, which help me bolster and supplement you in difficult situations, but I'm not some sort of goddess. I'm pretty much in for the ride, just like you are.]

"How did they manage to summon me, anyways?" Elijah was a little bewildered. "I thought you were teleporting us somewhere."

[Hmm... It's possible they performed their summoning ritual at the same instant we traveled dimensions. Their magic called out for a demon, which you technically are, and voila. Magic, like most things, tends to follow the path of least resistance. It's not like I specified where we were going. We could have ended up anywhere! As it is, they opened the path and we simply followed along.] 

"Well, I guess it all worked out." Elijah haphazardly patted down one of the corpses, looking for anything useful, but not finding much. He stripped the robes off and froze in shock. He recognized the clothing they wore under their black robes. These sorcerers looked awfully familiar...

Elijah used observe on one of his first kills.

[Aaron Smith, level 9 (Deceased): A rogue sorcerer of Kamar-Taj. Perished in an ill-advised attempt to summon and enslave a demon.]

"Shit," Elijah swore.

[Shit indeed... We're in Marvel!]

Elijah was in a slight panic as he imagined a furious Ancient One hunting him down for the murder of some of her sorcerers. He calmed down in short order when he thought about what those assholes were trying to do. Summoning a demon? There was no way the Ancient One would abide by that shit. Those sorcerers were random dropouts, without a doubt.

Elijah let out a small sigh of relief, before a greedy glint appeared in his eyes. These were all sorcerers...

Five minutes later, the corpses were stripped of anything useful, and Elijah was the proud owner of seven slightly used and blackened sling rings, which he promptly threw into his inventory.

[Sling Ring: A mystical artifact capable of creating portals reaching anywhere in the universe. Requirements: Eldritch Magic Proficiency.]

He didn't have much of a use for them now because he wasn't trained in their use. He was sure he could learn some Marvel magic for the esoteric portal artifacts at some point. Waste not, want not, as they say. He'd figure them out given enough time.

"By the way, these stats? Where would the average human score according to you, system?" Elijah asked.

[Baseline humans who live as ordinary citizens generally score around 4-5 in each category. Intelligence can vary wildly, with some humans having a paltry 1 and some scoring well into the hundreds. Humanity sure is an interestingly diverse species.]

"Survival of the fittest," Elijah shrugged. "Sometimes a dumber person will survive in a situation that would claim the life of someone more intelligent. Survival and evolution work in weird ways. Speaking of..."

Elijah flexed one of his newest skills, Hemokinesis, and summoned all the blood from the dead sorcerers. The corpses drained quickly, their blood floating through the air and congregating in Elijah's cupped palms. The blood was compressed through his control until he had a neat ball of blood the size of a marble.

Elijah popped the blood ball into his mouth and gulped it down greedily. The intoxicating aroma of the blood was temptation enough, but it tasted divine. Elijah knew he would have no problems if blood was the only thing he could eat or drink for the rest of his life. He could eat normal food, of course, but he doubted it could compare to blood.

The instant the compressed blood hit Elijah's stomach he let out a satisfied moan.

[That sounded lewd...]

"Get your head out of the gutter. I just shot back over forty liters of blood, woman! That shit's better than any drug I ever heard of, shit." Elijah loved being a vampire. Magic, blood, and death were all around him and he'd only been at this for a couple minutes. He was born for this!

Before he left the cave, Elijah threw the corpses in his inventory and placed a Fast Travel marker, just in case. He could only place ten teleportation locations at any one time, but at least he knew this place was cleared out. It would work if he needed to backtrack. Allocating his ten new stat points from his level up, Elijah took his first step out into a new world.

[Elijah Volkihar] 

[Gamer, Pure-Blood Vampire, Son of Molag Bal]

[Level 2]

[Health: 200/200]

[Magicka: 250/250]

[Strength: 10]

[Agility: 10]

[Vitality: 20] 

[Intelligence: 25]

[Luck: 6]

[Free Stats: 0]

[Skills: Gamer's Body, Gamer's Mind, Spell Library, Inventory, Observe, Fast Travel, Hemokinesis, Compulsion]