Gregory’s improved abilities after somebody got a 1000 in a stat really pushed his power to the next level. Even without the bonuses, his current stats were all above what they had been previously. However, he could tell that his current actual physical strength was barely above what he had as a human, and his health too was only a bit above what it was as a full human. The only thing giving him more survivability currently was him having full body scales, and being almost entirely immune to attacks from people that couldn’t damage his scales. The best thing though, was that his magic got a huge boost from the added wisdom he had gained. Being a dragon caused magic to be amplified by wisdom over intelligence, making dragons a very unique race. There was a mythical race as well, one that Gregory only heard about, that was able to use their agility to deal more physical damage because of their insane speed and lithe builds. Aside from generic information, not much was known about them, but it was known that their lifespan was lower than that of a human, and birth rate lower than the dragons. It meant that despite being the world’s greatest assassins, they were doomed to a difficult life if they wanted to make anything of themselves. Of course, that was the extent on the knowledge of them. Their race had been lost to the annuls of history, in part because they were too ambitious and more died than were born until eventually none remained.

Gregory looked at his group, it was a strong group, and would be the only way he could possibly make it out of this situation alive. Thinking to his stats, he remembered that he could speak to the powerful beings who sent everybody here using his FTH as a catalyst. He refused to believe that those things were gods though, as they were far too obsessed with themselves from what he’d seen. He wanted to force a connection, so channeling mana through his FTH, he put out a signal. A signal that only the ones who’d sent him here would be able to see. To his own surprise, his FTH kept getting higher, making the beam every brighter and harder to ignore. Something struck him at this moment, to use spatial magic to summon them here, using his FTH as a focus to find the beings he wanted to call. It seemed that this action was a unique way to get ahold of the self-acclaimed gods. Gregory fell unconscious, waking up in a mental mansion. He saw two beings there with him, a man and a woman, not human, but they appeared to be somewhat human. Their bodies seemed almost perfect, not necessarily infinitely attractive, but as if there were no flaws.

“Why have you summoned us this way human, don’t you know we ought smite you for your…”

They paused upon seeing Gregory. Despite recognizing his unique FTH, as it was a rare stat to have, they hadn’t expected him to become as strong as he had so quickly, or to become a part dragon. There was only one person they were watching intently, and that was Eric, the human who had advanced most quickly, and then became an elf, and quickly pushed his way over the level 100 barrier at which point he became an Advanced Elf. It was the gains from becoming an elder elf that had removed the stat bonuses for humans alone, but also gave all but him a huge boost to power. Of course, he didn’t need it anyways. He was already the most powerful by leaps and bounds, pushing himself to already being level 19 as an Advanced Elf. They secretly wondered if that man would become an immortal due to race evolution before Earth had even merged over, it would make him much stronger without a doubt. Gregory though seemed to have a much firmer base of advancement. He had not only been transformed to half-dragon, but also took time with the dragons to naturally push his stats to the limit.

They brought up his status, and were shocked by what they saw. With the new spell he had just created, he had pushed his stats even further, managing to break 1000 WIS and even pushing his INT higher. The most surprising part was his FTH, which had grown by leaps and bounds because of the unconventional and almost reality breaking way he attempted to summon them. They smiled a bit to themselves, realizing that these humans were quite unique compared to the humans they had found previously. Despite only being a bit more advanced, they were capable of so much more complex and advanced thought, not needing to focus only on survival and being able to study freely. Only a human mind could ever grasp onto some of the things that these two were doing with their abilities on this world. Both men were frightening in their own way, but these powerful beings feared nothing, partly because they had virtually limitless stats and were far above anything any of the races on this planet could hope to match.

“We are leaving now, don’t even try summoning us that way again. Here, a few levels for you and your party to celebrate your ingenuity. Consider this a gift, and talk to us the regular way if there is anything else you want to know. Just to make things interesting, we are giving everybody that came from Earth OVER level 50, and the people in your party, a save stone.”

Gregory got a notification for a new passive skill due to heightened WIS.

WIS has reached over 1000, Mental Fortitude skill unlocked.

Mental Fortitude resists attacks on the mind, granting immunity to any mental affliction or disease. This can be overwhelmed by those with higher fear invoking stats than your WIS.

They ejected Gregory from his mental space, and he awoke from his sitting position. Glancing over the members of his party, he saw that they had all reached level 91 or higher. He had nearly fainted upon seeing this, for them to have done such a thing meant that they were either very generous, or really wanted to make Gregory a suspicious person to the rest of his group. Even with the experience necessary for his levelups, Gregory had managed to reach up to level 73. He put ten trait points into Gaint’s Strength, and then one point into perk-finder. He had also gained two class points, putting one into Wizard, and Sorcerer.

Unbeknownst to Gregory, the gap between 50 and 51 was an enormous stretch to cover for humans, due to their lack of combat power without a heavily combat based unique class. A lack of huntable creatures capable of raising the level quickly made it near impossible to cross it. This is why only five had managed so far to perform this feat, the first was Eric, who had done so alone and was a level 19 Advanced Elvish Human. The next was Sean, who had done so by using his suggestion to kill a human from Speculo. Gregory had made it by the power of whatever these beings were, which was saying just how dangerous and powerful they were. Jessica, who had gained an Absolute Combat unique class, essentially made it to level 103 and had become a level 3 Advanced Human. The last was a gluttonous man who had gained a unique class by the name of devourer, and could directly consume experience from anything he ate. He had reached level 100 and was on the cusp of becoming an advanced human upon reaching the experience needed to evolve race.

Evolving race was different from transforming race. It did not remove stats, and was one of the few natural ways of obtaining a save stone. Another way was by obtaining it from a natural dungeon, and the last was by being a sentient killer of a sentient that had used one. The evolutionary levels were Advanced, Elder, Ancient, Legendary, and Immortal, and gave improvements to stats. An advanced human had a multiplier of five to all their stats, making them as powerful as baseline celestials and demons. On top of this, races gained additional class points when advancing to higher evolutionary levels of their race. Humans, and human originated transformed gained three class points on evolution. Many other races gained two class points on evolution in addition to the additional stats, the races that focus primarily on magic and physical attack being the exceptions. Dragons, Elves, Elementals, Ogres, Trolls, and Giants all gained only one class point per evolution in addition to the boost to their stats.

Many people when gaining a second race would have it transform their base race, instead of having it grant a second race. Having a second race in addition to the base race was a huge boon. It granted twice the leveling potential. They could level both their original race, and the second race separately, meaning additional boosts to power, especially once a person reached the immortal level. Ranking a race to the immortal level allowed it to continue growing past 100, having no true level cap, but at the cost that every level-up had exponentially multiplying experience required to continue leveling up. Merged races were also powerful, in that they changed the baseline stats of the original race, instead of mostly granting physical characteristics and only very small stat changes. Gregory being a True Draconic Human had gained the full benefit of the “true” stat of the dragons. His WIS had a multiplier of 20, making him almost as powerful as a standard dragon in terms of magical might. In fact, it would continue becoming closer when he ranked up his race, as that would push his stats closer to those of a true dragon until they matched. The modifiers that could be for a merged race were True, Grand, Great, and just having the second races name in front of the original race. Either way, one of the modifiers would be used in front of one of the races, whether that was the original or the new race was to be determined by where a person’s talents lay. Grand and Great were weaker variants of the True, while not having a modifier on the second race was very similar to having a primary and secondary race, except that there could still be a secondary race on top of the merged race at an added risk to life.

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Looking in his inventory, a very limited space that was actually made obsolete by many of the larger holding bags that could be created, Gregory found the save stone. While he hadn’t gotten one of the holding bags, his enchanting abilities allowed him to find out how to make one. It would allow him to create one himself, given some time to understand the enchantment and advance it to the point that it would be strong enough to be worthwhile. Still, having the base of strength that he had made him that much safer even without all of the tools that a person on this planet would usually have. Now, having the save stone meant that he would be even better prepared to survive. He would need to plant it as soon as he could, and then be free of worry. Well, at least free from needing to worry about his survival. He would wait until morning to ask the rest of the group about the save stone, as well as to let them know about how their levels were all raised by powerful beings and all given save stones.

Gregory moved toward the entrance to the cavern they were in, when he saw Alfred sitting up against his hammer. Alfred had taken the night watch, and the notifications he had just received were unbelievable. It was unheard of, leveling that many times in such a short time-frame. Judging from the notification though, Gregory had done something that got the attention of the beings that ruled this place. Their group had all gained enough experience to push them into levels that were normally associated with a degree of difficulty, and then also got them all a save stone, something that would never be seen over the course of a normal lifetime. It was a huge safety net, but also a trap that one could fall into. Using it too soon would result in stagnated growth. It brought people back to the exact same physical state as when the person planted it. Many would plant it immediately, but that only made sense for people that were truly at risk of death. It made more sense to wait until such time that it was actually hard for them to survive. Gregory was the one exception. He was definitely weaker than them, and could be damaged far more easily. It was known, that even with his scales, Gregory was the most at risk of them to be damaged or die. His health was way less than theirs, not just due to constitution and strength being much lower, but also because his multipliers for health were far less than theirs.

Alfred motioned Gregory closer, wanting to ask him exactly what happened.

“It may not be my place to ask, but the notification I just received seems to indicate that you are the reason I received a save stone. It also appears that something you did caused us all to gain huge amounts of experience. I am not complaining about this, just curious as to what you could have possibly done to elicit such rewards.”

Gregory craned his neck slightly, while rubbing his temples with the thumb and middle finger of one hand. He lifted his head back up before deciding that Alfred and the rest of the group should know the truth.

“I tried to summon one of the beings that brought me here, it resulted in me winding up in my own unconscious while they spoke to me. For what I did, they asked me to never do it again, but rewarded me for the effort with experience and a save stone. They also said that every human over level 50 who had come from Earth with me would receive a save stone. I just hope that there aren’t too large a number of them.”

Alfred laughed a little, Gregory would likely not realize, but humans for the most part had a very hard time crossing the level 50 barrier, their lack of heightened stats making them far weaker compared to beasts that they would need to defeat for leveling up.

“I doubt any aside from you, except for maybe a few with a lot of luck, will be obtaining a save stone in that way. For a human to level past 50 is usually very hard, because they cannot face many of the stronger creatures that would give them appropriate experience for their level. That one human we ran into may be the exception to that rule, but there won’t be many, if any, that could defeat stronger creatures alone like that.”

Gregory sighed a small sigh of relief before he began to move. He would need to get some fresh air to think things through.

“Thank you for that information Alfred, I really appreciate it. If you would excuse me though, I need to take a little walk to sort things out for now.”

Moving toward the cavern mouth, Gregory began taking a walk outside to sort his thoughts.

‘I could easily enough push PER to 1000, which would grant yet another passive ability, one that would likely give me a massive boon as well. It may be the best way, it would certainly not hurt, and could only make things easier for me. Not to mention, I could put the extra points into INT.’

343 points to PER, 240 points to INT

PER has reached 1000, True Senses skill unlocked.

True Senses enable one to see, hear, and smell through all illusions, dimensional veils, and even sense truth itself. Nothing can give the senses of one with True Senses falsities through any means. They cannot be affected by anything that is not absolutely real. In addition, they cannot lose trace of a target unless it is through a much faster speed that prevents them from keeping up.

Gregory smiled, there were two things he just remembered that had to do with his improved WIS and PER. He could read any books in the WIS, PER, or mixed WIS and PER wings of the library. This would be something he would need to test now that he could.

Status

Name Gregory Jeffrey Drake

Age 19

Level 73

Class Wizard(4), Sorcerer(4), Cleric, Enchanter, Summoner, Necromancer

Unique Class Gamer, Master Scout, Arcane Warlock

Race True Draconic Human

Title Fearless, “Outnumbered, not Outgunned”

Health 8300/8300

Stamina 26892/26892

Mana 251075/251075

CON 100(95+5)

STR 100(95+5)

AGI 224(219+5)

INT 605(600+5)

WIS 1019(1014+5)

PER 1000(955+5)

FTH 203(198+5)

LUK MAX

Passive Skills Life in a Game, Passive Luck, Reverse Engineer, Multi-Casting(N5), Observant, Skinning(N1), Filleting(N1), Barrier Vision, Photographic Memory, Cloth-Working(N1) Armorer(C/L)(N1), Repair(C/L)(N1), Clothier(C/L)(N1), Embroiderer(N1), Metal-Sewing(M-A)(N1)

Feats The Wise One, Perceptive, Lucky, Kingslayer

Traits Trained, Educated, Boosted, Troll’s Constitution, Power Leveler, Giant’s Strength, Perk-Finder

Debuffs N/A

Active Skills

Riftwalker N/A[10M,10S]

Flare Novice 9(23%)[10M]

Bolt Novice 3(37%)[10M]

Slice Novice 8(46%)[10M]

Flame Engulfment 3(27%)[20M]

Identify Novice 2(17%)[N/A]

Healing Novice 1(0%)[20M,10S]

Self-Healing Novice 1(0%)[30M,10S]

Mana Bolt Novice 1(0%)[10M]

Mana Sphere Novice 1(0%)[15M]

Mana Manipulation Novice 2(3%)[VARM]

Homing Mana Sphere Novice 1(0%)[75M]

Homing Mana Bolt Novice 1(0%)[50M]

Expanding Explosive Mana Sphere Novice 4(0%)[1000M]

Spiraling Mana Javelin Novice 2(19%)[700M]

Spiral Mana Bolt Novice 5(4%)[20M]

Stealth Intermediate 1(0%)

Portal Walker N/A[30M]

Enchanting Novice 1(0%)[VARM]

Stat Buffing Novice 1(0%)[VARM]

Defensive Buffing Novice 1(0%)[VARM]

Damage Buffing Novice 1(0%)[VARM]

Teleportation Novice 1(15%)[VARM]

Chrono Shift Novice 1(0%)[VARM]

Gravitas Novice 1(23%)[VARM]

Fireball Advanced 3(1%)[1000M]

Inferno Novice 1(0%)[100000M]

Lightning Chain Advanced 2(3%)[1000M]

Grand Lightning Spear Novice 1(0%)[100000M]

Tornado Advanced 1(98%)[1000M]

Vacuum Novice 1(0%)[100000M]

Frozen Lance Advanced 2(0%)[1000M]

Blizzard Novice 1(0%)[100000M]

Barrier Journeyman 5(39%)[500M/S]

Aura Journeyman 8(72%)[500M/S]

Summon of the Divine Novice 1(97%)[25,000M]

Unspent Stat Points 0

Unspent Trait Points 0