POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Jul 27, 2022 16:36:09 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Jul 27, 2022 16:36:09 GMT -5
SUPER HEAVY WEIGHTS ACTIVATED
TRAINING DUMMY ACTIVATED
Liari had been listening to the song in her head, sound of Babadi's voice playing through her head. For once, there was no uncertainty, no fear, no DEBATE! Even the voices of Quash and Callion fell silent in her head, either smothered by the crushing grip that the wizard had over her mind or fearful of what might happen if they DID! ...Either way, it didn't matter... Liari felt... ALIVE again! FREE! It was as if all her inhibitions and cares were buried under A MILLION TONS OF RUBBLE! She could no longer see, nor FEEL them, even if she tried! All she heard... were the brilliantly compelling commands of the GREAT Babadi! ...And he wasn't just great because she told him to call him that! Behind that frail, borderline USELESS body, there was power... VAST WEALTHS of dark and insidious magics his reach far deeper into the bowels of mysticism than even LIARI could reach!
...And she wanted it all... Such ambition came with the awakening the good wizard had bestowed upon her, a NEED to grow in her magical prowess as much as her strength! This ability to draw out the darkness in others and BIND them to her hip as thralls... She desired it... CONTROL over others. She had come to the good master with his concern, this desire to learn his ways! She had even demonstrated her full command of the arcane for him, turning one of his more useless slaves into chocolate... but he had seemed unconvinced.
"I have seen such tricks before, you know." Babadi had scoffed, waving his hand at his newly chocolatized servant! "I once possessed the mightiest creature in the universe who could do tricks just like that... But then... he never really showed interest in what I, THE GREAT WIZARD BABADI, could offer him... Very well... If you prove yourself to me in your next task, I MAY consider tutoring you... NOW LISTEN UP!"
Babadi walked over the great sphere in the middle of the room, resting his hand upon its bulging curves! He looked upon the sphere with longing... perhaps even NOSTALGIA as if he were running over fond and distant memories of better days!
"How much do you know of... 'Majin Buu...?'"
Liari tilted her head, her lips curling down in a thinking frown.
"...I have never heard of anyone by that name, master." Liari stated, shrugging her shoulders!
"No, I don't suppose you would have..." Babadi sighed with slight irritation before puffing his chest out in pride! "Only those steeped within the bowels of the universe's darkest magics would know of such a beast! ...And he was mine... I once controlled the mightiest thing in all of the-" He stopped, catching Liari's confused gaze... before letting out a frustrated grunt. "...To give you the sort version, he was a majin like yourself but with power FAR beyond yours!" Liari's eye twitched at the statement, her eyes narrowing... but Babadi didn't seem to notice! He was too caught up in his story! "My father had created him and, when he died to those INSUFFERABLE KAIS..."
Kais...? Liari thought, crossing her arms over her chest! Just how deep does this go-
"YES KAIS!" Babadi snapped, Liari JUMPING to attention! Babadi sneered at her reaction, tapping his massive head with his tiny finger! "I'm in your head, remember...? I can hear every little thought that passes through that EMPTY shell of a HEAD!" ...That comment should have ENFLAMED Liari's temper... but it didn't! ...All she could feel is fear and regret at having angered her master! ...Babadi smirked at her expression, his yellow teeth glinting against the overhead magical light. "...Good. You understand your place. NOW SHUT UP AND PAY ATTENTION. There is more to this story...."
Liari's jaw snapped CLOSED as she stared attentively at the wizard, her body still and rigid as if Babadi had FROZEN HER STILL with some kind of magical spell! How could she have been so careless as to interrupt the master!? She had disrespected him! A GRAVE offense for anyone else who might've crossed her master! Maybe she was lucky... or perhaps Master Babadi had taken interest in her...?
"...When those WRETCHED KAIS killed my father, he left me Buu and he was stored in this capsule here..." Babadi wrapped the shell with his tiny knuckles. "...Buu has long since met his end for what he did to me... but his shell might still have its uses... And that's where YOU come in, my minion!"
Babadi reached behind himself and pulled around something that looked like a genie-lamp of sorts with now stand on the bottom, the nozzle at the front coming to a REALLY FINE POINT at the end... almost like a NEEDLE! Liari eyed up the device then looking back to the ball, noticing there was a very small hole at the base of the sphere just large enough to fit the neck of the needle! What would he do with that device...? Did he want her to... inject something into the sphere...?
"An astute observation, Liari..." Babadi noted, a small, BARELY NOTICIBLE chime of pride in his voice! "...Yes, this is a power extractor. I want you to fly around Earth and extract as MUCH energy as you can! Depending on how much you bring back, I'll have something waiting for you befitting the fruits of your labor."
Liari reached out, taking the extractor in her hands... It was... Much heavier than she expected.... What made it even more odd was that the thing looked to be made of something clay-like or... chitinous...? Whatever it was, it CLEARLY wasn't earthbound. Befitting... of a wizard of Babadi's great power! Liari would hold the extractor to her chest and bow before the wizard, Babadi turning away and back to his crystal sphere as Liari made for the exit... Her FIRST real assignment for the Great Babadi after he took her under his wing! She wasn't going to screw this up... NOT WHILE SHE HAD SO MUCH TO GAIN!
WC: 1013
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POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Jul 27, 2022 21:11:02 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Jul 27, 2022 21:11:02 GMT -5
...Gather power....? That was all master Babadi wanted...? As Liari stood outside of the ship, she considered sticking HERSELF with the sapper... After all, she had SO MUCH POWER compacted into her body... Surely, it would be enough to satisfy Babadi's demands right...? ...She paused, waiting for some kind of INPUT from the wizard but got nothing...? He had nothing to say at all...? Perhaps he was merely waiting to see if what she was musing would actually bare fruit...? Curious, Liari would turn the contraption around in her hands, directing its narrow point towards her midriff! SUDDENLY, the tip would BLOOM open into something resembling a sucker, the machine nearly JUMPING out of her hands as it SHOT INTO HER STOMACH!
"URRRK!" Liari gagged, shocked to feel her stamina... RAPIDLY SLIP AWAY! Master Babadi had told her of its purpose but this thing was... IT WAS ACTUALLY STEALING HER ENERGY! She had never felt something like this before, feeling her life SLIP AWAY like this! Sure, she had been knocked out and YES, she had felt AGONIZING PAIN as she was blasted into bits and torn apart but.... but this was different! Was this what Kombu felt when Liari watched the life slowly leave his eyes!? Was this what Callion felt when he put EVERY LAST DROP of his power into that Kamehameha!? ...Everything just... slipping away...?
"NNNGH! GET.... OOOOFF!" Liari growled, PRYING at the object as it remained STUCK to her body! "I SAID.... OOOOOOOOFF!"
*NNNNNNNN-POP!*
With a FEARESOME EFFORT and with Liari exerting EVEN MORE power, the device PULLED FREE, Liari left huffing and puffing as she held the container out in front of her, staring at it with SHOCK... and perhaps a little intrigue!
Neheheh... You're smarter than you look... Babadi's voice echoed in her mind, the wizard watching her from the safety of his crystal-ball vigil! Another handful of seconds and that extractor would have surely killed you! How reckless!
Liari huffed with frustration as callous, schadenfreude echoed through her mind, mocking her for her mistake!
Oh, needn't you mind, Liari. Your power will return in time. As for what you've captured though, my readings have already confirmed you've obtained over HALF of what I need already! CHOP-CHOP! I COMMAND IT!
"...Yes... Master... Babadi..." Liari huffed... before flying wobbly off in some direction! She needed power... STRENGTH, things that would set off her senses for master Babadi! The problem of being as strong as she was that everything was SO FAR BELOW HER, it was hard to determine if what she was getting was enough to sate her master's desire... As Liari flew, her power slowly retuned to her, akin to a pool slowly being refilled from, a small stream after being drained NEARLY to its floor! She felt the exhaustion, the BURNING in her muscles recede like the tides... She was getting her strength back... and, if she had too, she could sacrifice more of her power for her master... She could recover it back... she could ALWAYS recover it back...
...As these thoughts occurred to the majin, a wave of... dark euphoria come over her, the grip of Babadi's hold on her brain relinquishing... if only slightly. A reward, perhaps, for her determination...? A feeling of... comfort...?
...Liari only allowed herself to bask in it for just a moment. After all, she had a job to do. Cradling the device under her arm, Liari touched down at mount Paozu first, STABBING the device from dinosaur to dinosaur, draining as MUCH as she could from each one without outright killing the beast before hopping tot he next one... progress was slow and Liari could BARELY FEEL A DIFFERENCE in the weight of the extractor after each session... but then, it was always the little things that always added up in the end!
What are you doing!? The voice rumbled in her ear, a wave of displeasure FLASHING across the majin's mind and nerves! WHY AREN'T YOU DRAINING THEM DRY!?
"Master... If I have to fly through here on the way back... these dinosaurs will have recovered enough energy for it to be worth stealing again... If I kill them, I cannot make a second pass..."
There are FAR stronger fighters with MUCH greater significance than a few giant reptiles! KILL them. DRAIN their energy! Take it ALL to me! Forget these 'dinosaurs...' OBEY!
Liari flinched, a hand SHOOTING up to her head as an ARCH of pain SHOT through her skull and down through the middle of her spine, her teeth gritting against one another as she QUIVERED in pain!
"Yes.... Master Babadi..." Liari grumbled... before flying off towards the biggest power she could find!
...And BOY was it big... Some human in a nearby grassland... and OLD MAN not unlike Shen or Roshi, small and squat... but then, his looks were deceiving. He wore some kind of old geezer's garb, a kind tunic with elaborate colored patterns and black pants and monk-slippers, his face concealed behind some kind of mask! A GOOD TARGET! Master Babadi would be PLEASED! Liari DROP down behind the man, THRUSTING the extractor up towards his back... only for the old man to FLIP backwards at the last moment, his head passing over the needle RIGHT as it opened up to extract his energy! Liari barely had enough time to let out a YELP before his foot SLAPPED across her cheek, Liari being sent FLYING into a nearby tree as the man landed gracefully where he once stood!
"...Bad move, human..." Liari rumbled, wiping her hand across her face and scooping up her extractor! "...Because NOW I have to HURT YOU."
She RUSHED down the old man with a FEROCIOUS strength and speed, coming at him from a million angles at once, attempting to stab, kick and even BITE at him with the stubborn hostility of a wild and desperate predator! The old man was strong, graceful even, but his grace and technique simply couldn't make up for the power-gap between them! It wasn't long in their duel before liari could find an opening and THRUST the point of the extractor into the old man's stomach, DRAINING HIM DEEPLY... until he very much resemble a prune on the ground! He would live... if with difficulty, and they were close enough to civilization that someone would find him!
Goood, Liari.... GOOOOOD! The extractor is almost full! Return to the ship! I have something for you!
Liari would smile, sharply, her fanged teeth flashing at her latest victim... before she took off, SHOOTING back towards Babadi's ship!
WC: 1096
TWC: 2109
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POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Jul 28, 2022 7:42:40 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Jul 28, 2022 7:42:40 GMT -5
"HeeheeheeHEE! Good... GOOOD!" Babadi cackled, his massive eyes LIGHTING UP with pleasure as Liari returned to him, device in hand! "I can feel the extractor TEEMING with energy! Give it here! Give it HERE!"
Liari, with a satisfied smirk on her face, passed off the extractor to Babadi whose smile only GREW as he took his tool into his hands! Turning to the sphere, Babadi inserted the long, thin neck of the extractor into the opening on the ball, the meter at it's base FLIPPING to the opposite end, indicating full capacity!
"AHAH! YES!" Babadi cackled, RAISING HIS HANDS above his head, his fingers curled into gnarled, victorious claws! "MY ULTIMATE TRIUMPH IS ALMOST AT HAND! HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!"
Liari's smile widened, PROUD to have made the wizard HAPPY... but what she did in particular, she was uncertain! ...But... that ball looked very similar to the one that Liari had buried just outside of... Ayu's... Liari's stare blanked out, her smile dropping off her face as something from beneath her mind attempted to FORCE its way to the surface, POUNDING against the wall between her Majin self now... and who she was before! It wasn't pain, exactly, but the disruption was so intense that... something was... Something green was...
"LIARI!"
The majin blinked, her eyes SNAPPING to attention as the wizard snapped his OWN fingers in front of her eyes!
"...I lost you for a moment. What were you thinking about!?"
"I..." Liari whispered, holding her head! The sudden SNAP-BACK to reality REALLY caused her a headache! "...I was just recalling how that sphere looks a lot like the one I woke up beside..."
Babadi narrowed his eyes, as if processing her answer... before shrugging and turning his attention back to the sphere!
"It is possible that mages imitating my father's work might have used a similar device to hold you until you were ready. Then again, if you woke up on THIS dirtball outside of a chamber like this one, chances are your awakening was unintentional."
Liari blinked, this revelation... shocking her! She... She had always thought she was defective, that... maybe after her activation, something went wrong and she just... woke up without memory...? ....But if her awakening wasn't on purpose then... all of that would make much more sense. Suddenly, Liari felt the magical eye of the great wizard BABADI peering into her thoughts, Liari WINCING at the sudden intrusion as the wizard beheld her past and her present, absorbing her musings into his own!
"...There are, in fact, ways to free a sealed creature from its confinement outside of the standard ritual requirements, you know." Babadi huffed as if he were explaining simple math to someone mentally handicapped! "Typically, life-force, A SIGNIFICANT QUANITITY of life-force, is required to break a seal powerful enough to unseal an entity like Buu... or one such as yourself. However, depending on how much time has past or if a strong enough impact has been made against the shell, these things can cause the seal to simply... CRACK open! ...However..."
...A sharp pain of dread ARCHED though Liari's body a the word!
"...There are often negative consequences to the creature inside if they are awakened prematurely... A loss in power, perhaps.... A loss in memory..." Babadi's massive eyes flicked to Liari's, a dark, arrogant smirk flashing across his face! It was only just now did she realize how much Babadi could SEE in her... From that magical hand he had placed upon her brain, he seemingly could extract almost ANY tidbit of information he wished! He could see her past and her past thoughts... to her present and her present thoughts! His reach... it was almost borderline down her THROAT!
"...Indeed." Babadi remarked with a dark snicker, again raising his hands to the sphere! "And soon, you will be the FIRST to see just how much power I, the GREAT WIZARD BABADI, have at my command!" Liari watched on, her lips curling downward into a suspicious frown... She knew not why... She was SURE there was a reason... but something that her Master said just then... unsettled her... She couldn't help but think that... perhaps there was something... duplicitous about him...? Treacherous even...?
"Enough musings!" Babadi commanded after a LONG EVIL-LAUGH session, the wizard walking towards the exit of the room and beckoning for the majin to follow! "It is time I let you in on my plan!" ...Instant reassurance FLUSHED through the majin's veins as if it were a high from a drug, the tall, towering majin bounding after her master as if she were a dog on his leash!
"Now... the reason I had you gather that energy is for an experiment of my own..." Babadi stated, hovering upwards! Liari followed, nodding her head in understanding! "My Father, who has MUCH less magical potential than I do, was able to create that traitor, Majin Buu... So, if HE was able to do it, I most CERTAINLY should be able to make a much STONGER, MUCH MORE OBEDIANT slave!"
"Master... if I may..." Babadi paused, looking to Liari expectantly, if a tad impatiently. "...You speak of this... Buu as if he had wronged you in some way... Did something happen all that time ago...?" Babadi's eye twitched, even if his smirk did not fall from his face. Obviously, this was a subject still SORE for the old wizard.
"Nevermind Buu!" Babadi hissed, deflecting Liari's question and returning back on topic! "All of that was to say that I have a plan to create a NEW majin! A STRONGER majin! Something that would put Buu to SHAME and SECURE MY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE!"
"...Power..." Liari echoed, looking down at her hand and squeezing it into a close fist. "...I suppose after your plan is successful, you will not have a need for someone like me anymore." Babadi paused, flashing Liari a look, a mild gaze full of suspicion and pride flashing across his eyes!
"...You ARE an astute observer... And you would have been RIGHT... a few hundred years ago. I have LEARNED my lesson since THAT mistake... So long as you continue to serve me, I will always have uses for another minion."
...Liari blinked... uncertain how to take that... However, she said nothing, thought nothing and simply followed the Wizard to the surface!
WC: 1053
TWC: 3162
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POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Jul 30, 2022 18:51:46 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Jul 30, 2022 18:51:46 GMT -5
"Ah, there you are, my little Majin servant..." Babadi cooed darkly, hovering up behind Liari. Even in this state where her hate, anger and rage BUBBLED at the surface like oil floating above the water in a boiling pot, she had been attempting... to meditate. Call it a hunch or call it an impulse but something inside of her was begging her for a moment of quiet, some small moment of piece that Liari could call her own and, perhaps even relax in. It wasn't as if Babadi had anything to do with her before this moment, spending all of his time chanting some mystical words over his ball, doing funny little dances Liari only half-paid-attention too. As for the results of this... training, she was unsure if she was successful or not. All she did was sit and wait, her mind bouncing around for a time before falling silent. Was this all that was commanded of Meditation? Sit in some fancy way and clear your mind.
...Hogwash.
Foolishness! This accomplished nothing! Wherever that impulse stemmed from, Liari would CHOKE it down and keep it subdued from now on! She didn't need any more fruitless distractions while she was serving under the great and powerful Babadi!
"A wise determination." Babadi mused, her thoughts reaching his ears as easily as if she had said it. "...But I do not have you here for your wisdom. I have need of you once more."
"What is it, Master Babadi?" Liari beckoned eagerly! "I'm ready for any task you can give me!" The wizard cocked a hairless eyebrow, a small sinister smirk flashing across his face!
"Indeed? Well, this will be the test of that statement! A group of wannabe 'heroes' have broken into MY SHIP and are waiting on the first floor! It seems they have caught wind of my plans... I want YOU to exterminate them, Liari!" The Dark blue majin smirked. FINALLY, something she could flex her muscles on! That last assignment Babadi had assigned her was little more than grunt-work, something any soldier with a power of 300 or higher could accomplish! Granted, in far more TIME than the Majin, but still more than capable!
"Be that as it may, it was ESSENTIAL!" Babadi barked, Liari wincing as she forgot he could peer into her mind! "...And as you can see, the number of minions at my command has shrunken rather dramatically in recent years! This is why I require YOUR services NOW!"
"I understand, Master Babadi. They will not get past me."
"They better NOT!" The tiny potato-man grunted, turning to his crystal ball! "...Because if they do and you're still alive? I will make sure you won't be for much longer!
...Liari gulped... but nodded before SHOOTING up to the top floor! That was probably the first time something the Wizard had said bothered her. Before, all the threats and the bluster were merely taken as... challenges, something to encourage her along so that she could please her master more and more! ...That time, though, that disrespect and threatening of her life, that had gotten under her skin. Slowly, the bulging veins and swollen muscles on the majin would begin to recede, her expression transforming from something dark, edged and twisted into something softer, resembling her original face. The influence of the Majin mark was fought back on a magical and conscious level... but not with something so crude and obvious as a power-play! She did not seek to OUTMUSCLE the GREAT BABADI on his own turf of the Arcane arts! ...But through trickery. Liari always had that sort of playful, nefarious edge to her, something that allowed her to think outside of the box intuitively, even if her raw intelligence was lacking in parts. She chose to flood herself with magic, to... ABSORB Babadi's magical power into herself, to allow it to sink in and dilute like a sugary claw being doused with a rushing flood of cool water! Slowly, the grip over her mind would begin to lessen and the Wizard was none the wiser, only able to see the superficial physical changes... but then, what did that matter?
...He barely paid much attention to how his spells affected his minions! So long as they served him... and served him faithfully!
...Liari would allow Babadi to keep thinking she was under his control... for now anyway. Any thoughts the wizard might hear from her now were akin to those of a masking signal sent his way, repeats of previous thoughts or automated new ones, sent to satisfy the probe with no more or less significance! Babadi's mind-reading, as Liari had deduced through CONSISTENT EXPOSURE, functioned very much like a metal-detector. Anything on the surface he could easily pick up and scan, having no issues in identifying and exploiting those very thoughts to benefit himself!
...But things below the surface...? That was something else all together.
"Heh." Liari smirked, crossing her arms over her chest as she slowly hovered to the surface floor. "...He hasn't yet figured it out. Good. I just need him long enough to get what I want and then...? He's toast." ...That's right. That little trick Babadi had done to get her under his control? That little surprise mental-takeover...? Liari wanted. it She wanted that control over people. She wanted the ability to manipulate and twist others to her will. ...Liari might have had her faculties back... but that didn't mean the wrath that Babadi had brought out in her wasn't going back in the bottle. ...It was all out now, out in the open for her to feel, mald and hate over... She had realized how easy it had been for people like Zero and Quash to twist her thoughts, to make her believe they were her friends or allies... She had realize how bloody and twisted they were, eager to use her for their own ends and be remiss to return the favor themselves.... Well, now they wouldn't have a choice... As Liari stepped out to greet these new visitors of Bababi's Liari smirked...
She was going to make them all her minions.
WC: 1022
TWC: 4184
EXIT!
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Aug 1, 2022 13:06:02 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2022 13:06:02 GMT -5
You're getting yourself 7,653 PL and 2,385 Zeni!
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