I woke up (?) not bleeding from sleeping on a literal battlefield, and instead finding myself well rested, which is already unusual enough, and with a system window in my face. Well I guess getting the system notification noise blazed in my head is always better then death, barely though.
welcome warrior to the standard system tower! In this tower you will face waves of enemies, a mini boss on floor 5, and a real boss on floor 10! buckle up and grab your weapon, cause god knows your going to need it!
hm. i feel like the system has more emotion than usual... wait, it uses this tone in skill descriptions doesn't it? And in that initial system message. Anyway, lets check the status
[name: David] [age: 20] [class: N/A] [lvl: 4]
physical stats:
str: 9 (+1) [1 increase]
agi: 7 (+1)
def: 14 (+1) [5 increase!]
vit: 7 (+1) [1 increase!]
mental stats:
wil: 5 (+1) [2 increase!]
int: 10 (+1) [1 increase!]
cha: 1 (+1)
unallocated stat points: 12
skills:
mental acceleration lv 2
introspection lv 1
stab lv 1
focus lv 6
slash lv 10
M.E.N: M variant lv N/A
redirection lv 7
piercing resistance lv 8
titles: [pioneer] [weak] [one hit, one kill] [just like Pokémon! (10)]
Wow. That is a lot. Wait. Stat points? Can I increase my stats with them? Uhhhh allocate 1 stat point to strength
allocate stat point?
guess is just works like that, and no. I guess I get why people were killing so much back then. What should I allocate them into then? strength and will seems like the obvious choices, cause they would respectively allow me to hit harder, and take more hits before succumbing to the urge to faint, though defense would also work in that regard.
ughhhh. I slump down from m sitting position and the system window follows. this is so stressful, there's a reason my mental skills raised so fast, I pity me. killing people, whatever's going on now, and the god awful amount of system errors, and a whole system that doesn't make sense! My stats shouldn't be this weak! And this isn't just me, I'm sure introspection is helping me, because this is about me! And it isnt just stats, MY SKILL LEVELS ARE IRREGULAR TOO! THEY SHOULD HAVE LEVELED THIS FAST! I NEVER WANTED TO BE HERE, AND AT LEAST NOW I KNOW I NEVER WILL!
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SHUT UP!
I looked at my hands and-
I screamed as my stomach was bashed in and my eyes focused on something- a weird green creature. I got up and ran, finally getting the mood to check my notifications
introspection level 1 -> 3
feedback taken! thank you for helping improve the system experience
time is up! the system tower will now start involuntarily! first monster(s): 1 goblin! stream activated!
my legs started to get weak, my breathing getting labored as I pushed myself hard, coughing as I bled internally, my mental state broken down because of my previous mental breakdown, mental acceleration only managing to make it worse than the sum of its part would as my brain spiraled into worse and worse mental states with more time, as the pain got worse and worse, my brain managed to issue a single command. Grab my axe. I reached back and spun around, still not wholly focused on the fight, and grabbed nothing. My axe was still at the house I woke up in. I STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR! my eyes started to water as I thought of my parents and just my own selfish self preservation as my brain tried to backtrack useful things as the goblin ever so slowly seemed to close in with the rough bat it carried. and something in my brain finally clicked. Invest all stat points in strength!
ding!
YES!
I felt my body fill with strength, although it did little to numb the pain and fatigue, it did much to help my mentality. And for once in this god forsaken life of mine my mind focused one one task. Step forward, and punch.
the goblins head exploded like a melon , leaving the rest of its body to fall limp and eject all of its waste and blood, and in some sort of mixed bag of feeling happy I survived, happy I won, and some sort of feeling of going crazy, I slumped down and started laughing, and realized, I wasn't even that hurt, it would take a whole day for it to kill me, and yet I over reacted just because I haven't ever been in a non life or death fight before this. God I hate this system. I thought as I fell in a dreamless slumber. ignoring the system notifications