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「Here we go… Show me the whole assortment of cliches you've got, don't hold anything back.」
His finger hovers over [Yes] and he taps it with a smirk. The moment he does, his body starts enveloping in golden light, starting at his feet. He looks down at the light as it crawls up his legs fairly quickly…
Then, as it climbs to his waist, he senses something odd below his belt. He reaches for the source of disturbance as light makes it up his torso.
He fondles and gropes, and his eyebrows rise as he is pleasantly surprised.
「Oh! Guess high charisma even makes it so you have a bigger-」
…
Rolling hills, plains, tilled fields… Vast green forests and prominent mountains somewhere far in the distance…
A feint chime sounds out on one of the plains, and with a low thump, a form of a young handsome man appears there.
Fwoomp.
The grass rustles violently in a circle around him, as he appears in a flash of light out of nowhere. He looks everywhere around himself, then down at his body.
「Didn't have to be born? Spares me 14 years of suffering, give or take. Having clothes spares me looking for a biker bar, too. Let's see...」
His sharp eyes scan the horizon, the nearby treeline and the hills…
《No goblins in the trees? No slimes hopping around the fields? Wait...》
He pats both sides of his hips.
「No sword? Not even some gold to start off with?! Shit. What are my stats-」
《Opening stat screen...》
A female, monotone voice announces. A rectangle similar to the one before appears before the reincarnated man.
「Stat screen? Whatever happened to numerical whatever of whatever? Already dropped that pretense of uniqueness?! Tsk.」
[ATTRIBUTES]
Strength: 10 ▲ Perception: 10 ▴
Agility: 10 ▲ Endurance: 10 ▲
Dexterity: 10 ▲ Willpower: 10
Luck: 10 Intelligence: 10 ▴
Charisma: 159 ▴ Wisdom: 10 ▴
「What are those arrows? And why is luck and willpower missing them?」
He focuses on one of the arrows near his attribute indicators, trying to ascertain their meaning…
A tooltip appears just above one of the arrows.
Indicates growth potential. Indicator size relates to growth speed.
Current growth potential factor: 0.293%
「Only 0.293%? And that's the large arrow? Wait, does this mean I can't grow my luck or willpower?!」
The once dead man pinches the bridge of his nose in frustration.
「Well, whatever… This screws with my plans a little, but I'll just roll with it. Hopefully I can raise the attributes all the same on level… That's right - there's levels, right?」
[Level 1]
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0/100 XP
「Figures, can't be a cliched shitty isekai without levels. I wonder if 100 XP is a lot… And everything starts at 10… Are humans just weak here? Or is 10 already high?」
He furrows his brows and rubs his chiseled chin as he thinks…
「If you think about it logically, the thing making most sense would be that 10 is the average human… That means I am about 16 times more charismatic than the average… Heh. Not bad.」
He waves the stat screen away with the back of his hand.
「Get this shit out of my face, not like it will matter beyond the first 5 minutes...」
A gentle breeze blows across the field, rustling the grass growing just past the ankle and making the trees dance… The young man takes a deep breath of flower-scented air as he looks down in silence for a moment.
「...Man...」
He looks up at the deep blue, faintly cloudy sky with a poignant expression.
「I never thought I'd think this, but I missed being alive.」
He scratches the side of his head with his finger… Then shrugs, and walks forward through the grass.
「Well, time to find something to kill.」
He wades through the grass for a few minutes, looking left and right for monsters, or anything that may not give him a hard time… Finally he sees a shape, just on top of the hill ahead of him.
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A caramel-cinnamon colored fuzzy ball, its elongated ears jiggle as it rips out grass and chews on it hungrily. Its fluffy round tail twitches from time to time. It hops forward, then repeats the process.
「A rabbit? Perfect! Something safe to grind on! Here we go!」
He breaks out into a sprint. Grass rustles beneath his feet, but only for few seconds as he activates [Burglar's Feet].
He notes a very slowly draining mana bar in the corner of his vision, but it is of no interest to him at the moment…
The rabbit has its back turned towards the running man as he sprints uphill, perhaps it is due to the height difference, but it fails to spot him as he closes in.
He makes it to the top, the hare feels a disturbance, but it is far too late. It turns its head to look…
The man cocks his leg back to deliver a vicious kick, and a red glimmer shines out from his foot as [Lucky Strike], a once-per-day 25 point skill activates.
If the bunny knew what it were, it surely would hear a jet turbine spooling up. Its nose twitches.
「OORRRRRRRRAAaaaaa!!」
His foot makes contact.
The bunny makes two sounds that no living being should make – a squeak like a rusty door hinge, and a thwack like a well inflated football as it is sent on its way in a sub-orbital trajectory.
「Gyyyaaa!- Huh?」
His warcry turns into confusion as he hears tell-tale sound of a supersonic crack. He looks at the spinning bunny as it flies.
「[Lucky Strike] or not… Something is off, either that wasn't 10 strength, or… 」
《Level up. Attribute points gained.》
A monotone voice announces. Far in the distance, the bunny slows its spin as two black dots appear from it in the sky. He fashions a sun visor out of his fingers and squints to get a better look.
A sword whirls viciously as it flies off, and a potion bottle sails in an arc with the bunny.
「That must have been the loot items, huh… Too bad, guess I'm not getting them now.」
「Either way, I need power the most right now, items can wait-」
《Level up. Attribute points gained.》
「Alright, Fine! I get it! Shut up! Good grief… Stats!」
[Level 3]
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150/1000 XP
「One rabbit and I'm already level 3? This will take no time at all.」
He dismisses the screen and looks down the other side of the hill. The field below is dotted with rabbits of multiple colors. Black, white, light brown, black and white…
「Freefarm!」
He activates [Burglar's Feet] again, and runs down the hill towards the nearest rabbit…
A peasant tilling a field watches the ordeal in the distance, he walks up to his friend.
「Yorick, do you see that man?」
He asks his friend, who is tilling the field unfazed.
「I see him...」
「Why is he kicking rabbits? Nevermind that, do you see how far he kicks them?! I could have sworn I just saw one fly off like a bird-」
「Tumult, just focus on the field. One foot in front of the other, before the master notices you're chatting...」
…
「Oorrrrrrraaaaa!」
The reincarnated man sends another bunny flying.
《Level up. Attribute points gained.》
The montone woman's voice repeats and repeats herself for quite some time now.
「Ahhh… The voice in my head won't stop, and it's hitting the dopamine button for everything I kill… Good thing I'm a bona-fide otherworlder or I'd land in an institution. 」
「What's my level anyway?」
[Level 34]
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12413/40000 XP
「Some bunnies are worth more than others, huh? I wonder what's that based on. Let's see points...」
[495 attribute points available] [3 skill points available]
「495?! Just for a bunch of rabbits?! Wait, there has to be a catch… For starters, let's round this off and test my theory… 」
His finger hovers over the [+] near his charisma value. He taps it.
[485 attribute points available] [3 skill points available]
Charisma: [-] 160 ▴ [+] Wisdom: 10 ▴ [+]
「Knew it. So costs increase as stats do… And it seems XP requirement per level has wonky scaling, too. I guess you can only get so powerful in this world… 」
He shrugs and taps [Apply] button in the corner of the screen, saving the points he just spent.
「That's if you're a normie. I'm going to become a powerhouse in the simplest way possible.」
He climbs back uphill and looks around. The field has been cleared of rabbits, and the remaining survivors must be cowering in terror somewhere.
「No more free XP, huh? Whatever, it doesn't matter at this point. I'm about to become the most powerful man in this world… 」
「Stats!」