“Any problems?” Replied the entity. Was he not able the see notifications? “If you are having problems I can’t…”
“Just let me check something…” I think about the words Status Screen and out of thin air the status screen popped up. I look back at the entity. By now it’s clear it doesn’t seem to notice the screen. Hmm. Maybe the fact that you need a clear mental picture it would be difficult for someone this to be attainable, but that was not the case for him as he had played lots of games and even read manga which had status screens. I look at the values on the screen:
Name: Ryle Lanton
Race: Human
Class: [CLASSLESS] Lv. 1
Titles: [Oops][Iron Will]
Skills:[SIGHT]
HP: 10/10
MP: 0/0
STR: 1[2]
STA: 1[2]
DEX: 1[2]
SPD: 1
INT: 1[98]
IMA: 1[98]
As I focus on the Class first and a description shows up:
[CLASSLESS]
Lv. 1
This class has no specialty so the user will not gain any SP upon levelling, but SP can be obtained through other means.
Hmmm. So… it is possible to gain SP though other means? Would this be a class specialty or something people just don’t know about? I try focus to get more details. Nothing happens. That was asking a bit too much. Let’s look at the titles now:
[Oops]
Your soul has reincarnated without been cleansed. Furthermore, the difficulty level of your original world is 97 over your current one. This is a cosmic blunder of epic proportions.
Effect: +1 for every level difference to [INT] and [IMA]
That would explain the extra 97 points on both these stats. Maybe this is the reason this kind of [GRIMOIRE] was possible.
Suddenly my interlocutor breaks my concentration. “Are you ok? It seems you failed at conjuring a Grimoire. This is most unusual.” He seems really concerned.
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“On the contrary! It was a success!” I assure him.
He looks from side to side questioningly, until it suddenly hits him. “It’s invisible???!!! For real?????” He looks chocked beyond believe. He opens and closes his mouth and then starts mumbling something. I can only hear every other word “… not really my business… how could he… what mental image could he…” He looks back at me and shakes his head “Well if you are done… of you go” And with a wave of his hand I suddenly found myself back in my father’s office.
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Just as Ryan had started retelling his experience to his mother, he felt it. Someone close by had awakened. Where was Ryle? He ran back to his office. His son was there on the floor still playing with his toy. Nothing seemed out of place. Specially the lack of grimoire made him release the breath he hadn’t realized he was holding in. How crazy was him form thinking his baby boy had awakened at such a young age? Had he imagined it? Maybe he had. He picked up the boy and went to the kitchen, where his wife and son were so enwrapped in their story about his class and skills to notice them missing.
“Ryan. Tomorrow we will go to the Temple of Genesis to use the Status Stone so we can check your status for the first time. As a baseline at your age, you should have 100HP, one for every year, nobody knows why, but HP just increases 10 per year until you are 10 years old, that the reason we do the awakening at this age, and then stays the same for the rest of your life. You can increase you HP further through training, exercise and other means depending on your class, but 100HP is the most it will naturally. You should also have all your stats averaging at 10. Everything over that would be above average.”
“Why haven’t we read my status before?” Ryan interrupts him “Why wait until now?”
I remember asking these same questions to my father once. The memory brings a smile to my face. “For two reasons. The first one, it costs 1 silver to read your status, and secondly, and much more importantly, before you are awakened, trying to use the stone will not show any results.”
As Ryan, didn’t seem to have any more questions he carried on “Also for every class level you will get SP according to you class designation. As we share the same class, I can tell you that you will get +2 [STR] and + 2[DEX] with every level. As for skills, like every other class, you will get one skill from your class for every level for the first five levels and then one skill every 5 levels. Although you will instinctively know how to use your active skills, this will not be the case for your passive skills. So, if you cannot tell what skill you got your only way to find out is paying 1 silver to use the church’s stone. That is, unless you join an organization that has access to one, like the guards.”
As my father went on talking about the [SWORDSMAN] class specifics I stop paying attention. Time to finish looking at the rest of my status. My sudden ejection from the white room… universe... reality… dimension place… and my reappearance just as my father came back into his office seconds later had left me without inspecting the other title and my skill.
[Iron Will]
Your determination to exceed your own limits can increase your stats. Training skills becomes easier.
Effect: +1 [STR] +1 [DEX] +1 [STA]
Then I turn to look at my first skill:
[SIGHT]
Level: 1
Rank: Basic [E]
Description: You can see a little better than most people. It’s easier to pay attention to details.
Cost: 0 MP
Cooldown: none
I slap my forehead in frustration. Why is everything so quiet suddenly? Why are all of them staring at me? Oh crap! I’m acting uncharacteristically for my age again. “Ga ga ga…Prrrrr”. I hope that works. Their expressions soften.
My mom turns back at my brother beaming. “This is a cause for celebration!!!”
Looks like they bought it, but I must be more careful from now on.