His brother had always provided for him for as long as he could remember. Their parents died when Axis was just 4, and since then, his brother, who was only 9 at the time, took on the responsibility of looking after the family... family... A memory flashed through his mind before he shook it off. Their childhood wasn't easy. Which was why the previous owner of the body was eager to earn credits to pay back his brother.
He silently swore to do the same, especially now that he has a cheat.
"Now come. Tell me what happened at the delivery." Yuri said as he poured Ax a drink.
"It wasn't too crazy..." Axis smirked while placing the jacket at his side and he sat on the chair.
"Except for the fact that my head was almost blown to bits,"
And so the brothers spent the night drinking and telling about their day.
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"You should avoid taking big risks for now; train your skills."
"I plan to take some small bounties for a moment."
"That's a good idea. It'll get you more experience for the big things."
"Hm hm"
"All right I'm off, just checking if our business is going well; I won't be back till tonight. Call me if anything happens."
"I will, good luck."
Ax was left alone in the apartment as his brother was off to do his job.
"... it's terrible.."
Ax was chewing on some nutripaste in his mouth as he couldn't help but mutter. The nutripaste looked exactly like what it's name is, a white paste-like substance.
Organic food had become scarce since the rupture, so megacorps and scientists figured out a way to solve the food problems.
What was that slogan again at the beginning?
[One egg for a hundred people]
Simply put, they managed to extract and synthetically duplicate the nutrients in organic food and multiply them, with it, they were able to feed an entire city, but at the cost of its taste.
Of course, even with only these, humanity's creativity cannot be stopped, so they made different flavors of the same stuff, but still, in his opinion, they were terrible.
There are still organic foods, actual meat, and the like available for purchase and eat, however, as one could imagine, they are expensive and exclusive to the rich.
Swallowing the paste, he opened his system and went to the Build Tab.
Build Athletic+ Perception+ Technical+ Experience points: 2103
He then expanded his athletic build, and an ability tree appeared.
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The first and obvious one, the large icon with the bleeding thumbnail, was the starting passive ability of the athletic build.
[Increase regeneration by 20%: 1000 experience points]
With the technological attainment of this world, technology that helps increase a human’s regeneration speed has long existed, though, quite rare.
Now it seems that with 1000 exp, he could increase his regeneration ability without installing any bioware on his body.
If he unlocked it, the following passive abilities connected to it would become available for purchase:
[Increases stamina by 10%]
[Increase vitality +5%]
[Increase dexterity by 10%]
[Increase strength by 10%]
All cost a thousand exp, and more will be unlocked when he purchases them, but all of them are related to his physical body.
He also suspects he could still upgrade them more than once after purchasing them like a game.
Then he expanded the perception build, and another ability tree appeared...
[Enhance your Instinct]
The primary passive ability was related to his instinct or sixth sense, which was a pretty powerful passive ability in his opinion.
[Increase sense of smell by 10%]
[Increase sense of sight by 10%]
[Increase sense of hearing by 10%]
With three abilities connected to it and more with the focus on perception. All cost 1000 experience points as well.
Then lastly, the technical skills, this one had the most passive skills available..
[Increase accuracy to all weapons by 20%]
Was the primary ability, with others connected to it...
[Increase knife handling skills by 10%]
[Pistol shooting accuracy increased by 10%]
[Shotguns shooting accuracy increased by 10%]
[Assault rifle shooting accuracy increased by 10%].
[Rifle shooting accuracy increased by 10%]
[Increased hacking ability by 10%]
[Increased driving skills by 10%]
[Increase machine-building skills by 10%]
All related to technical skills.
All three builds can help him greatly; unfortunately, he only has a bit over 2000 XP.
Still, this will allow him to have the same capabilities as an upgraded human, maybe even more, and without its disadvantages.
As for how to gain experience, the job well done yesterday confirmed his speculations; if he was correct, the best way to gain experience is to complete quests or missions.
He had gained 120 experience the day before when the boss handed them the money.
And the stacked exp was probably from a bunch of missions he did in the past.
Like a game... He set aside questioning his existence as he decided to spend his experience points.
He had already chosen what to buy. In a way, it was quite obvious.
[Increase regeneration by 20%]
[Enhance your instinct].
Although the 20% increase in accuracy was enviable, he considered his shooting skills to be above average. At the very least, he could train them in the gang's training hall, but strengthening your instinct and increasing regeneration?
They were hard to obtain.
Soon he spent his exp on them, and changes occurred in his body; He felt a warm, cold feeling washing over his existence before disappearing.
Exp:103..
He saw his remaining experience, and at the same time, he saw that both skills had changed.
[Increase regeneration by another 20%; 3000 experience points]
[Further enhance your instinct, 3000 exp]
He could indeed upgrade them again to another level, just that, the price increased by three times.
Curious, he paid attention to his status and immediately noticed a change in his stats.
Axis Smith Physical Stat: 1.9 (1) Technical Skills: 1.9 Perception: 1.4(^2) Personal ability: Bullet time: You can go into bullet time once a day for 3 seconds. Unique Skill:
Duplication: Able to duplicate an item of a certain size once a day. (Duplicated items cannot be further duplicated.)
His physical stat has increased by 0.1 points, while his perception has increased by 0.2 points… It seems he had been mostly relying on his instincts the entire time.
Just as he was mulling over how to upgrade his personal and unique ability as well as how to easily get exp without endangering himself... A call came in...
[Troy Calling...]
"Accept.."