Aalam
Aalam was growing annoyed.
It had been six hours and the thing still wasn’t dead. Sure, the blue-gray slime was D rank, with high Toughness and high Vitality, but it was locked in a forcefield-like cage and he’d been hitting it with three full power mental spikes per second for six hours. Granted, his skill was only Epic grade and of G rank, only able to show the power of Spirit up to a value of 144, so, with his Id state, he’d hit the max threshold it could handle back when he had a Spirit of 12.
But he’d doubled the amount of his Spirit he could use through his Law Egg of Calm, and then increased that by another 50% when the Law Egg advanced to middle grade after the first two hours, yet the thing still wasn’t dead.
Congratulations!
Your Law Egg of Rage has advanced to middle grade.
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Spirit +8, Soul +4
Spirit is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +8
Soul is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +4
Aalam tried using the Law Egg of Rage instead and his mental spikes quickly became more effective. He couldn’t use as much Spirit as when using the Law Egg of Calm, but he was able to add in the power of his middle grade Law Eggs of Entropy and Energy Transfer at the same time, and that almost doubled the power of the spikes from his previous versions.
Four minutes later, the thing finally died.
Congratulations!
You have completed the hidden objective of Damage the Invincible Caged Monster, Kill the Invincible Caged Monster.
You gain the following:
D rank Monster Core of the Invincible Slime
You have completed Kill the Invincible Caged Monster in under 7 hours.
You gain the following:
Flesh of the Invincible Slime
Aalam was immediately teleported back to the central square of the city’s Market District, where the notice board of optional challenges had gone up on the tutorial’s second day, right in front of his auction house. In his right hand, he was holding a glowing blue sphere about 10 cm in diameter, while in his left was a large pink plastic bucket filled with blue-gray goo, the slime’s flesh.
Both were very high end resources, but they couldn’t be used for the weapon he’d designed, while the primal stones were a perfect fit, so he was looking forward to the trade.
With his maximized Agility stat, he was almost certainly the fastest trial taker in the tutorial, and he practically flew into the amphitheater and up to the elevator bay.
During his ride down, he started to have a bit of an epiphany about speed and, when he entered into training room 0003 on the bottom floor, the epiphany ended.
Congratulations!
Your Law Egg of Gust has advanced to middle grade.
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Agility +4, Magic +4, Spirit +2, Soul +2
Agility is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +4
Magic is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +4
Spirit is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +2
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Soul is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +2
Aalam didn’t know what he’d been expecting, but it hadn’t been to walk in on Mila being chased by what looked to be 83 Marksman-H combat remotes from Star Wars while the Yin Yang Sage watched on with a look of glee on her face.
The training did look effective, however, so Aalam decided not to disturb them. Instead, he set the monster core and bucket down near the entrance and then went to sit in one of the room’s corners, assigning his free stats to maximize his Attunement.
The process of killing the Invincible Slime had helped him fully master his mental spike skill, but he still hadn’t reached even 80% with Flow State or Myriad Thoughts, so he pushed his psyforce into the two skills to boost their effects for greater training.
Both skills were passive, Flow State helping him more easily focus and Myriad Thoughts allowing his subconscious to process more at once, but he’d discovered pushing psyforce into the skill runes boosted the effects of both skills, and it wasn’t like he had any other use for the resource while trying to gain new Law Eggs.
Using the Law Egg of Calm on his mind, he entered into a deep meditative state, and focused on the concept of gravity for about two minutes.
Law Egg gained - Gravity
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Magic +6, Spirit +3, Soul +3
Magic is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +6
Spirit is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +3
Soul is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +3
Gravity had always been something he understood quite well, so, even with already having 30 Law Eggs making gaining new ones somewhat more difficult, it didn’t take him long for the initial Law Egg formation and he quickly used his new free stats to again increase his Attunement by as much as possible.
Then he focused on the second concept the Yin Yang Sage had suggested, most of what she’d said having already been part of his plans, and gained a Law Egg of Kinetic Energy in about four minutes. Gaining the Law Egg of Antimatter took almost an hour, but then the Law Egg of Multi-Dimensional Geometry was surprisingly easy, taking only about thirteen seconds.
He then spent the next several hours fully focused on improving his already existing Law Eggs, getting the Law Eggs of Inertia, Ultraviolet, and Ultraviolet Absorption to middle grade first, as they’d been close for a while, and then advancing the Law Eggs of Temporal Relativity, Infrared, and Infrared Absorption as well. Finally, he advanced his very first Law Egg, the Law Egg of Soulform Temporal Acceleration, and he was done with one of his first major goals.
Using all but six of his free stats, he fully maximized the last of his twelve attributes.
“Ya-ta!” He jumped to his feet and raised his hands, screaming out like a crazy time-stopping Japanese otaku, and the two women in the room turned to look at him.
Mila, who’d just gotten up after being shot into a tased mess on the floor, stared, appearing confused about why he was so excited, but the Yin Yang Sage began to clap. “Nice job, Aalam. I think you’re only the third person I’ve ever heard of maximizing all twelve stats during a tutorial.
“For such a feat, I’m allowed to grant you a minor boon, so how about this? Before you start on the construction of your artifact, why don’t you write out a full design document for me, including any reach goals you might have, and I’ll look it over and help you optimize.”
Aalam was about to start jumping up and down again, but the Yin Yang Sage raised her hand and Aalam stopped himself, focusing on the woman. “Before you start on your artifact creation, though, you’ll first need to gain your last two Law Eggs, train up your final six Laws to middle grade, and master your final two skills.
“So, go work on your four newest Laws and your skills while I help Mila master hers.”
Aalam was about to complain, but then the Yin Yang Sage said words which he could not argue with. “We need to maximize our efficiency.”
He sat down and meditated, spending the next fourteen hours bringing up all his new Laws to middle grade, this time the Law Egg of Kinetic Energy taking the most time.
By that time he’d also mastered his skills, the process of gaining and improving Laws greatly helping him understand both Flow State and Myriad Thoughts, and it was time for his skill merge.
When merging Rapid Thoughts (G-Rare), Meditative Focus (G-Rare), and Concentration (G-Uncommon) into Flow State (G-Epic) there wasn’t any issue. That merge had as a requirement only the equivalent of 72 Spirit, and he’d met that easily.
The merge he was about to try, however, was marked as theoretical in the information the Yin Yang Sage had given him, and also had rather ridiculous requirements. First, unlike all but four proven merge combinations for creating Legendary skills at G rank, it required four skills instead of two or three—Flow State (G-Epic), Myriad Thoughts (G-Epic), Cognitive Healing (G-Rare), and any other psychic category Epic skill. In order to get a mastered fourth skill he’d needed to kill the D rank in the second Nightmare challenge of the tutorial to gain access to the Temporary Max Mastery Skill Boon from the System, and that had been hard.
The first requirement was much easier than the second, however. The second requirement for the merge was to have a Mental Forge smaller than Colossal, yet have at least 73,728 units of psyforce.
A unit of a resource was defined as the amount of that resource someone with a small Core Container, Mana Well, or Mental Forge would have for each additional +1 to the corresponding stat. So, as each size up meant four times the units, 73,728 units of psyforce was equivalent to someone with a Colossal Mental Forge, a full 144 Spirit stat, and a Spirit stat effectiveness of +100%. Thus, for someone with a Huge Mental Forge, effectiveness would have to be at +700%, and that was extremely, extremely rare at G rank.
Aalam had 110,592 units of psyforce, however, so he met the second requirement quite easily.
He activated the boon, temporarily gaining the mastered Cognitive Healing (G-Rare) skill for two hours, and then he activated the Orb of Skill Combination (G-Epic) he’d absorbed before leaving the tutorial’s second challenge.
Attempting to merge Flow State (G-Epic), Myriad Thoughts (G-Epic), Cognitive Healing (G-Rare), and Mental Spike (G-Epic) to Multi-Mind (G-Legendary).
Requirements met: Mental Forge size not Colossal or higher, + 73,728 units of psyforce
Congratulations!
You have merged four skills into Multi-Mind (G-Legendary)
Congratulations!
You are the first in the history of System tutorials to ever gain the Multi-Mind (G-Legendary) skill
All stats +24
Strength is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Agility is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Endurance is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Toughness is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Vitality is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Perception is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Magic is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Spirit is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Soul is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Aura is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Attunement is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
Luck is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +24
You currently have 342 free stats.
For Human Soulforms at G rank, the nascent energy for only 72 free stats can be maintained.
Find a use for the remaining 270 free stats in the next four hours or the energy will be lost.