“Despite multiple attempts to unify the understanding of the status sheet, the truth is that no kingdom, faction, or group would freely share their knowledge of what was essentially the source of their power, yet there is some convention among all the races and kingdoms currently in Kaldmor , and that is the skills within rank 1 to 3 were relatively normal. But after that everything was a national secret with the death penalty for those who shared such secrets and for those who learned them” – excerpt from Grand Master Dalmart status sheet
Chapter 3: Numbers.
A ray of sun hit my face, unconsciously I tried to curl up and hide under the blanket, but to my bewilderment I discovered that she was nowhere to be found, reluctantly I opened my eyes to look for her, but all I got was a betrayal in return, this was a declaration of war.
The ball of snot, no, Celia, it dared to steal my blanket shamelessly to use its own to snuggle in and mine to hide from the sun, but how lazy can a person be, how can they still be curled up in bed in the middle of the morning? .
Decisively ignoring my own hypocrisy, I had to face the fact that my day had started on the wrong foot. So I sat on the bed, oh well! that's one of the novelties, after being in this place for a year, our parents decided to give us a bed each, only. Well, the snot ball always went out of bed at night with blanket thefts here and there.
During the year I had achieved more than acceptable control of my body, being able to walk at 6 months. In addition, this time has allowed me many advances in various projects, firstly communication, I still can't speak correctly, not because of my inability to understand, I actually began to understand writing and pronunciation quite well at 5 months, I only limit my words to some loose words for fear that they decide that I am a freak or a genius, both sound equally bad to me, much more so in a medieval fantasy world.
Who can assure me that my parents won't burn me at the stake or that the neighbors won't sell the information to some noble or wizard and decide that a fluent-speaking baby being capable of adult-level calculations and conversations in their first year it's interesting enough to kidnap him and kill the family.
My paranoia aside, I have also made considerable progress in the field of understanding the status sheet, although I still have no way to compare my attributes with other people, if I have managed to discover some things first I have acquired some skills and therefore it leveled up a few times, so “Status”.
LV : 10 Experience : 2650/13 475
Health : 70/70 Stamina : 43/43 Mana : 258/258
[Attributes]
Strength : 4
Dexterity : 3
Constitution : 6
Mind : 25
Senses : 8
Attribute Points : 105
[Skills]
(Rank 1)
Focus ( Lv : 4)
Performance ( Lv : 3)
Math ( Lv: 1)
(Rank 2)
Twin Connection. ( Level : 8)
Sense Manna . ( Level : 8)
When I started practicing with Sense Manna , little by little I was gaining experience, also using the event of almost being in a coma from focusing too much, I thought I'd try to see if I could unlock any related ability, to my surprise it really wasn't silly and a way to knock myself out so as not to see nor hearing what my parents did every other night at least, I had actually acquired the Focus skill . On the other hand, Acting had arisen from the constant need to try to look like a normal baby, not as if the snot ball would make it easy for me, which is why I had leveled up Twin Connection . In any case, the first skill before focus and acting had been Math simply because it hadn't occurred to me yet to knock myself out trying to focus so I counted sheep, and since that didn't seem to work, I started doing derivative operations and functions, which seemed to be enough to acquire the skill.
In any case, after a few experiments I had learned that most of my abilities had two states, one passive and one active, the passive in each of them being a slight intuition in the field of ability, like Math telling me the distance from the bed to the door or the perfect angle to throw a dirty laundry into the laundry box.
Focusing simply made me more aware of where I was paying my most attention, to see more details, while acting allowed me to stay in my role as long as I wasn't under pressure to put on a show.
Sense Manna, however, was somewhat more complex, it made me aware of mana currents, and I had discovered some interesting things about it, the first type of mana I had discovered was wind, but apparently there were all kinds of mana, water mana , of fire, of earth, of wood, of life...
Finally Twin Connection let me know vaguely in which direction my sister was, as well as what her emotional state was , the latter only if we were less than 5 meters away.
If we talk about the active, Focus gave me tunnel vision by increasing the quality of my vision almost like a magnifying glass, Acting gave me in real time a rough idea of how to act if I wanted to perform some spectacular performance almost like a script in a play. theater, Math allowed me to perform impressive calculations in milliseconds.
Sense Manna , it changed my way of seeing the world almost like the pulses in video games, it was like the wizard's sense in The In Witcher 3, things lost their color a bit and the mana and current became much clearer and more defined, even taking on the color of its element or type or however it was classified.
last twin Connection , it was my blessing and curse, it allowed me to have a much more accurate understanding of Celia, one that even now being so close to level 10 was now beginning to give me a slight idea of what her thoughts and ideas were, I was pretty sure it wouldn't take long. in allowing us to have quite fun chats, but the problem was that to use its active mode the other party had to agree, and whether consciously or unconsciously, the snot ball would send an unwanted chat request from time to time.
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Regarding the leveling up thing, it didn't seem to have any attribute raising relationship, just every time I leveled up 10 more points were added to Attribute Points and the level value was added to Health, which apparently it was tied to the constitution at a multiplier of 10.
Under the same investigations he had discovered that Mana was linked to mind and senses, being a multiplication of mind by 10, and sum of senses.
Resistance had been by far the most difficult to understand and to be honest I still wasn't clear if my assumption was correct, until now I had stuck with the average strength, dexterity, constitution, and the result multiplied by 10
So:
Health = Constitution x 10 + Level
Mana = Mind x 10 + Senses
Stamina = (Strength + Dexterity + Constitution) /3 x 10
Attribute Points = Level x 10
Actually, although the calculations were simple, Mathematics had been very useful when I tried to check that my theories were correct, another discovery had been the ranks, or skill levels, I really don't know how they are classified in this world, rank 1 skills They gave 50 exp , and each level added 50 more to the previous one. Same with rank 2 only it added 100 exp .
In addition, the rank 1 seemed to be normal and totally common things while the rank 2 so far clearly had a much more mystical potential or origin, although the latter should wait to have a much larger sample before giving a verdict.
So for now:
Rank 1 skills = lv1 + 50 exp , lv2 100 exp , lv3 150 exp .
Rank 2 skills = lv1 + 100 exp , lv2 200 exp , lv3 300 exp .
All of this made it look like Focus would have given me 50 exp on the first level, 100 on the second, 150 on the third and 200 on the fourth for a total of 500 exp .
All this aside, as much as I enjoyed trying to unravel the inner mechanics of how this system worked, I was actually ignorant, even unaware if other people could see their status like me, or were only vaguely aware of their own sheet. of state without being able to see it. I knew that my parents knew when a skill leveled up because Mom had screamed excitedly when she finished some soup a few days ago, she had started screaming like crazy for raising her cooking skill to level 31.
Coming back to the present I started going through my morning routine, like it used to be at home, my sister was still curled up in her blankets and probably wouldn't get up until breakfast, mom of course had already made something for dad, but our breakfast used to wait until probably 8am, not like I had a watch to be sure, I was just using the sun as a guide.
My routine lately had become much stricter, which brings us back to the projects when I began to introspect my life for the last year, waking up this morning, I had started during my second month in this place a training routine, At the beginning it was just something to try to make my body move according to my desires, but after two weeks I had discovered that my attributes had increased by 1 point, that's how I started doing more and more demanding exercises, pushing my body to the limit. possible, then I would push my mind to its limits and as a result I would have an amazing night's sleep. And from time to time some attribute rise.
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POV: Eleanor.
At that time when my mother had used the excuse of teaching me the relationships between men and women to vent all her frustration of supposedly having had a problematic daughter they had seemed to me merely an outburst because she was fighting with dad.
Now however I actually felt a little sorry for my mother, although she would probably feel sorry for me herself , at least she had only had to deal with one at a time and my brother was 5 when I was born so he had experience and had had time to prepare.
I on the other hand was now the mother of babies, twins at that and to my dismay they couldn't be more different from each other. “Since they were twins they weren't supposed to look a lot alike and when they were teenagers they would play swapping who was who?” It turns out that although physically they were basically identical except for their eyes, the real difference was in their personality, Celia had been a rather crying baby at the beginning and with an extreme capacity to generate snot all the time, I even worried for a while but After Athena told me that she wasn't sick and that she was just like that, I decided to just pay attention to her, and although my attention was on her, it wasn't because she was restless, I actually doubted that except for her snot, there was a baby easier to care for, basically she ate and slept with cleaning intervals, the problem of course was her brother.
Caleb had been a miracle, according to Athena when he checked me before giving birth he was dead, and honestly it's quite difficult for a healer of his level to be wrong so there was no other explanation than the gods giving us a healthy baby, especially considering that My father's family was strangely capable of their women always giving birth to twins, the king and grandfather for example were twins, and father my uncle was twins although he was stillborn like the vast majority of twins in my family Almost always, the bigger twin will consume part of his brother before being born, which caused the death of the weaker one, or so the mother said when she warned me about what would happen when my children were born.
He had clearly told Lían so that she wouldn't suffer too much when it happened, however, he had been extremely careful, affectionate and even understanding when he understood it. That he had to accept was something he had always done since father had hired him.
Caleb seemed to have inherited some of his aptitudes because the problem child couldn't seem to sit still for a minute, if he wasn't looking he was making strange movements and pirouettes on one foot, or trying to do a handstand, “what 1-year-old would handstand?" Was that a thing? Caleb seemed to be innately capable of scaring Celia, as whenever she cried other than for her needs it was because her brother had scared her.
The worst thing was that after scolding him he would always see me as if he was the victim and I was being biased and unfair. What a child.
In the end, both Lían and I had gradually gotten used to what our children were like, although I couldn't deny that Celia seemed to have a strange ability to manipulate her father into carrying her around the house all the time, and Caleb the strange need from sneaking through every crack trying to get out and discover new things, the child had started to walk and instantly he had covered the whole house, and he knew every corner, and crack through which he could try to escape, we had had to buy wood to cover some of the gaps that we had ignored since we did not plan to stay too long in this place.
In the end however there was no doubt, we were a happy family, and although our past could not allow my children the best of academies or the brightest mansion, I was sure that when I could tell them everything they themselves would understand the decision, although probably to Celia wouldn't have cared with how lazy she was, and as long as they let him investigate everything, Caleb would be content.
I returned my attention to the fire where I was preparing the children's breakfast, Caleb was already in his routine of being a child too active for the good of his parents and Celia was probably still asleep, but a mother had to do what a mother had to. to do.
Once breakfast was finished, Celia had dedicated herself to annoying Caleb by simply sitting in front of him, something that seemed to get on his nerves, while I watched them out of the corner of my eye, I began to pack all our belongings, we had stayed a bit longer than we had planned.
Mainly because Lían had found no evidence that we were being followed this time and the children were still too young for a trip as long as the one we had in mind, however , all that passivity had ended yesterday, since Lían had seen a Inquisition squad.
The damned rot in hell had taken time, but they managed to find us in the end. It was something Grandpa warned us about before he self-imposed imprisonment to protect us.
"No matter what remote part of this hell we call home and which is the realm of your ancestors you want to go to, those dogs are going to find you, if you really want to be happy baby, you must disappear from sight without rumors of your existence and then travel to some other realm. I won't tell you which one, because that would only be to your detriment, but choose well, and above all be happy."
His words had been as true as they had been, although the old man was a pervert, his reason had never been lacking, we had thought that we had finally disappeared from the one with eyes and ears, but the bastards were already a week away.
Quickly write down on a piece of paper the things that occurred to me that the children would need if for some reason we had to stay in the forest longer than planned, I would have to teach them everything by my own means, Demer knew from his pantheon himself and from the very cathedral of knowledge that if Lían managed to read something with more than 10 sentences on a page, heaven would fall to pieces with hell having frozen over. He definitely wouldn't be the one to teach my babies to read, write and do calculations.
That was something else to think about, the day of the naming of the children could arrive in the middle of the forest, and by Kaloz and Talmer I would not allow my children to be one of those poor children incapable of taking an oath as the gods command, locked up in Being what chance decided of them, so the purchase to perform the rites ourselves would be necessary, that would probably leave us with the last of our money.
Caleb would probably choose as patron of the oath some god from the Demer pantheon since his curiosity seemed to be the main motor for his life, or perhaps as his father he would dedicate himself to war so just in case he would also have to look for something if decided one of the Rontar pantheon .
Celia seemed to have a certain penchant for laziness, and the family for which Kaloz was a very likely one, maybe just in case this obsession with hiding those mice so her father doesn't kill them turns into something else, I would also have to prepare something for her. fenrir .
So many preparations and no time were driving me crazy, and…
“Caleb! Don't even think about juggling that chair, you can't even lift your own laundry basket like you think you can lift a chair. Put her in her place!"
"Celia stop playing with those mice, your father is about to arrive and if he discovers you they will be part of his traps for tomorrow"
Being a mother is a wonderful thing, but there really are those days…