POV Main

I was in the dream space and at the same time I was awake. I saw world before my eyes as if through veil.

-= Hallo Main. – I heard voice of stone. He called me by my name, but I don’t want to share my personal data with you. – You wanted to talk, so let’s talk.

I flinched, my hand lost contact with the stone, veil disappeared. That moment I knew I should not watch any more horror movies in following days. But was I inside something like horror movie or was I not?

I took pot to the room, sat comfortably and touched the stone.

-= Are you ready for our little talk?

-= Who. The. Hell. Are. You? – I was not the sheep.

-= I don’t know. – He felt my boiling feelings. Before I exploded he said. – But I know some things. I am connected to you. I am quite stupid right now, but I know that I can grow and change myself. Better myself, better you. Give you some gifts.

-= Oh, you said that you will give me medicine against problems with circulatory system problems. Is there even such thing?

-= Yes, there is.

I was happy. I didn’t believe this voice completely, but if there was something and I could make money out of, then I was in this business. If in the future there was a danger, I could ditch stone and live happily with money, I thought.

-= And you can give it to me?

-= Yes, I will give it to you as I said.

-= Can you produce it?

-= Yes I can.

-= I will check if its working after you give it to me, and if it is, we could have a deal. I don’t think that paying you in blood will be a problem, if we will have money. So…

-= Wait. There are other important matters.

-= What?

-= Now, that I am awaken and we are bound by blood, we share great fate.

-= You start to freak me out. Besides, it was dog’s blood.

-= No, I’m talking about first blood. Blood on symbol.

-= What about it?

And in a blink there was this table on the veil.

Name

Nameless

daevo

Equilibrium indicator

Efficiency status

Muscle

90%

80%

Body integrity

82%

100%

Nervous system

96%

98%

Stolen story; please report.

Metabolism rate

103%

92%

Will resonance

03%

10%

Flow bending

08%

18%

-= What is this?

-= Your stat page. We are connected and in my nature is to help my host.

-= Your host?

-= Yes, you.

-= I’m your host?

-= Yes, I am somehow connected to you, your body, your brain…

I removed hand from stone. Veil was gone. That was too much for me. It kind of helped that after I disconnected physically from stone I didn’t feel any presence.

So, I ate breakfast. Did my work. Thought trice of the matter and after 17:00 I connected to stone.

-= Hello Main.

-= Hello. Tell me about stat page, and that will be all for today. Tomorrow we will talk more probably. We are stepping on thin ice here and I think about throwing you to some very deep hole if I feel that our relation is toxic. So let’s take it easy.

-= As you wish. But let’s make a deal that tomorrow I’ll tell you about my needs.

-= Ok.

Table was back on the veil.

-= There is this instinctual knowledge in me after I changed. Knowing your weight, how tall you are, your body model or species main properties is part of me now. I know the same things about dogs.

-= So it must be about blood.

-= I can show you information in that form, because it seem normal for you to work with these.

-= Let’s not go that way today. Name is a name. What is daevo? What does it mean?

-= We have some kind of relationship. I don’t understand it clearly too, but that was the name waiting in me.

-= What equilibrium indicator stands for?

-= I can feel natural point where processes in your body would be useful and balanced. Not harming each other and maintaining you in shape. Equilibrium 100% means that you are perfectly maintaining yourself.

I heard the words, but I didn’t think I understood them completely. I thought that I should look through each stat.

-= Efficiency status talks about rate of recovery or growing or refreshing. It’s complicated, so we need some examples. Let’s say you are writing down something with pen. You did almost all the writing and then pen stopped working. You found some replacement, but it’s not so good. But you now wrote all you need. Part is of inferior quality. Your body reacts similar. It wants to have job done even if there is inferior quality. Below 100% signs for that inferior quality.

-= Let’s go stat by stat.

-= Muscle E.I. 90% means that you have 90% of muscles needed to function normally when we talk about stabilizing or motoring functions.

-= I don’t feel I lack muscles. I feel quite fit.

-= Sure. But you are sitting half day on chair, which is not natural for your species. – I waited in silence. – Muscle E.S. 80% means that recovering after effort is not perfectly fine or there are electrolytic deficiencies.

-= Can you tell, which one it is?

-= I can not, but I feel that in future it will be able.

-= How so? You can not tell how you are making stats?

-= And you can tell which muscles you use and how when you are walking. I’m too doing some things by instincts.

-= Ok. Please continue.

-= Body integrity E.I. 82% means that some organs need time to recover or there are some deficiencies from diet. Body E.S. 100% tells that you are not injured. All of your body works as one system. Nervous system E.I. 96% perhaps shows that you are little tired and E.S. 98% means that recovery will be not perfect.

I was sitting patiently.

-= Metabolism over 100% means that you are getting nutrients more than you are using them. Efficiency means that this what you are getting is not exactly this what you need. You should not worry much because your body can stack different things for later, so upper stat efficiencies are better indicators for deficiencies.

It was about my eating habits, which I knew weren’t the best.

-= Two last stats are special.

-= I wanted to ask about them.

-= Will resonance is in passive form stat that tells you how long can you perform under immerse pressure against your nervous system. It can be very intense pain or some psychological pressure or just extreme tiredness. It is like virtual muscle against this kind of adversity.

-= It seems very low.

-= Did you train that stat or had a lot of misfortune in your life?

-= No.

-= In its active form you can use this virtual muscle to exert you will into someone’s mind. Like a hypnotic suggestion or mental distraction.

-= You have similar stat?

-= Yes, since I grow up lately.

-= Better than mine?

-= Better than yours.

I was silent. But words were obvious.

-= It would be not in my interest to use it against my host.

As if I was such easy believer.

-= You can train it if you feel threatened.

Perhaps I would do.

-= And the last stat, flow bending, is about putting pressure on physical world. There is constant flow through world, through reality. Atoms are moving, electric charges are dancing, there are quantum fields that by chance can start fire and other strange effects that are so very rare. One can bend a little this random statistics of the world and snowball them.

-= So first can be like extrasensory and second like magic?

-= I would not recommend to go that way.

-= Why?

-= Because you can not do anything that would not occur in reality naturally. You are just changing chances of possible occurrence paying from your resources.

-= Can you tell this more clearly?

-= There is no flaw in mathematics. There is no flaw in physics. Just some laws you were not aware of.

And I could take advantage now that I had access to them, I thought.

-= Thank you. – I said. – I have last question. Why percentage?

-= I have access to you only. Dogs blood is not enough to make comparison. Before growing I could feel other human minds nearby, now it’s very hard.

-= Thank you once again. Let’s talk tomorrow. How can I name you? You know we were talking as a civilized beings, so we need names.

-= I don’t know my name. I even think that it is something I get through growing, but I clearly have this function in relationship. I’m daevan, whatever that is.

-= Thank you daevan. – I broke contact.

Was that table trap in itself. Was I that stupidly greedy to go for it. Yes, I was. I knew that I will try new career in that LitRPG business managing my stats. My soft spot was always magic, however you named it.

Still, was that stone foe, trader or friend. What was his LitRPG stats?