After being sent back into her room by The God of Intelligence, Scarlet instantly went back to her bed. The room was quite big, around 10 metres by 10 metres, the walls painted blue, with a giant white bed in the middle of the room. She was about to close her eyes, but then she saw something that shocked her on her ceiling.
Actually, taking a closer look, it wasn't on the ceiling but actually mid-air. There was a strange white floating 2D rectangle, which had [HELLO SCARLET DRAGONCLAW!] written on it in pink writing. The rectangular box floated close to her face as if it was waiting for a reply.
Scarlet looked at it with a tired look and asked: "How do you know my name?" Instantly after the box changed what it had written on to [I heard the old man say it before]. Scarlet read the nonsense and started thinking out loud: "Old man? Before? What is this weird box thinking? AH! This floating thing must be that crystal!"
She realised after thinking for a few moments that old man must be referring to The God of Intelligence, and she thought of the most likely reason behind this weird floating box knowing who she is.
[Almost correct, I am called The System, I was sealed inside that diamond until you absorbed me. Also, you are the only one able to see me.]
Scarlet couldn't be bothered to think too hard about it, but there was one thing she needed to ask: "Why were you sealed?"
[Stop asking for a girl's secrets!]
She instantly retorted: "You are a box, not a girl!"
The System fell to the floor as if it was in pain [Stop calling me a box, I am clearly a girl!!]
Scarlet couldn't be bothered to argue so she just asked: "How are you a girl?"
The System then floated to close to her face and changed its text to [Can't you see this pink text?!?!]
After seeing that, Scarlet couldn't even be bothered to talk to it any longer after and decided to go to sleep. But as she was about to close her eyes, the text changed to [STOP! YOU WILL REGRET SLEEPING IF YOU SLEEP NOW!]
Scarlet looked at The System with an annoyed expression and said: "Why? If you are wasting my time that could be spent sleeping, I will ignore you forever."
[I will explain to you would regret it after I show you your status.]
Scarlet looked at The System with a confused expression and asked: "Status? What's that?"
[Do you have to question everything? I will show you your status now so please be quiet!]
[Name - Scarlet Dragonclaw
Age – 15
Sex - Female
Level - 1
Title – The One Cursed By A God
HP - 7/7(+0)
MP - 10/10(+0)
Strength - 2(+0)
Stamina - 2(+0)
Agility - 2(+0)
Perception – 10(+0)
Attraction – 1
Attraction - 20
Additional Stat Points – 0
Money Points - 0
Skills -
Status effects – Bad luck
Daily Quest – Day 1 (Not complete)
Quests - ]
[Also I will give an example of an average person's status, here is the status of villager A, also keep in mind that no one else other than you can see their status:
Name – Villager A
Age – 20
Sex - Male
Level - 1
Title – Villager A
HP - 10(+0)
MP - 0(+0)
Strength - 10(+0)
Stamina - 10(+0)
Agility - 10(+0)
Perception – 10(+0)
Attraction – 0
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Attraction - 20
Additional Stat Points – 0
Money Points - 0
Skills -
Status effects – ]
Scarlet read the information that appeared on The System and thought about it for a few seconds before asking it a question: "Why is the text not fully pink anymore? More importantly, from what I can work out this is showing my information, but you need to explain to me in more detail what each part means!"
The System was happy that she had given up trying to sleep, so it ignored her rude attitude and went on to explain what each part of the status meant.
[First of all, the name, age and sex are very obvious about what they are stating.]
Scarlet looked at it with an annoyed expression that said: "Hurry up."
[Level is something easy to understand, it rises as you gain experience, which is obtained from killing monsters, and as it increases your stats will increase.]
Scarlet thought for a moment after reading it and went on to ask it a couple of questions: "How hard is it to level up? How big is the stat increase?"
[The first level up requires 10 experience, and then the amount of experience required doubles every level up. The stat increase is simple, it is the same number as the level, so when you reach level 2 your stats will all go up by 2. You will also gain that many points as Additional Stat Points, which you can put in any stat you want to.]
"Doesn't that mean it will become extremely hard to level up later?"
[Yes, but you will be getting Additional Stat Points from Daily Quests and Quests so you will be able to get stronger even if you don't level up often. You can also kill stronger monsters the stronger you get and therefore you shouldn't hit a complete stop in levelling up.]
Scarlet then went to say: "I understand all of that, hurry up and explain the rest."
[Why are you so impatient? I will explain the stats in detail now. First is the HP, it is short for Health Points and when you get hurt it will go down, and when it reaches 0 you will die. Next is MP, it is short for Mana Points and when you use magic or skills that use MP it will go down. A normal person wouldn't have any MP, it is probably due to your noble bloodline that you have a small amount of MP. This is because nobles try to marry mages into their bloodlines in hopes of having mages in their family. You probably know this so I will keep the explanation short. Mages are people who either have an ancestor who had mana or they themselves were born with it.]
Scarlet looked at The System and said: "Yes I already know about mages, hurry up and explain the rest all at once so I can sleep!"
If The System could talk, it definitely would have sighed but it couldn't talk so it went on to explain the rest of the stats as if Scarlet hadn't been rude at all [Strength is your muscle strength, but upgrading Strength doesn't make you look bigger, it just makes the muscles stronger, so you don't have to worry about your looks. Stamina is obvious, having higher Stamina will make you able to run longer etc. Agility is speed and ability to dodge, basically having a high Agility will make you able to run faster and be able to dodge attacks a lot easier. Perception is how good your eyesight, smell and mana detection are. A high Perception would make you able to see far, smell far and detect mana accurately and detect mana from far away. Perception can also be controlled, which is very useful as you don't want to always smell sewage etc. Finally, Attraction and Attraction are about attracting people. The Blue Attraction means attracting males and pink Attraction means attracting females. The higher the number is, the easier it is to make people of that gender fall in love with you. Additional Stat Points and level up stat increases cannot add points to these two, it can only increase through the rewards of Daily Quests and Quests.]
Scarlet read the text and then complained: "Why did you have to write so much? I want to sleep so stop giving me paragraphs to read!"
[You are the one who asked for me to explain it... The readers will hate the paragraphs more than you anyway...]
Scarlet looked at it with a confused face and asked: "Readers?"
[Next explanation is the Title, it is very simple. It can be one of three things. The first is something a lot of people know you as, for example, if you are known by a nickname by many, it will be that nickname. The second is getting a big achievement, an example is "Dragon Slayer" for slaying a dragon. The final one is by having something done to you, for example being pushed down the stairs by a king could get you a title of "The One Pushed Down Stairs By A King". Your title is the third one, and since it is quite the major title, it will be hard to replace it.]
Scarlet saw it trying to change the conversation and told it: "Don't try to change the conversation... Wait are you telling me I am going to have the title "The One Cursed By A God" forever?"
[Well it probably won't be forever but I can't say it will change anytime soon. Anyway, I have nearly finished the explanation of the status, the next part to explain is the Money Points part. You can get Money Points from Daily Quests and Quests. They are spent in the shop, where you can get Skills and items. The items are things like weapons and armour, and on top of their use as equipment, they give a stat bonus, which is shown where you currently have (+0) due to having no armour. Daily Quests are set by me Daily and last until the end of the day, Quests are set by me whenever I feel like it and last however long I want them to. There is also a punishment for when you don't complete quests, so you should hurry up and complete your Daily Quest, you can see it by tapping on it in the status. Oh, I almost forgot to explain Status effects, it will show things like poison etc.]
Scarlet read through the long text and then looked at The System with an annoyed expression: "Why the hell did you give long explanations when I have to do a Daily Quest soon!?! Quick open the status so I can tap on it at least!"
[Don't worry, the first Daily Quest is very, even a lazy person like you could do it.]
The System then changed to her status, and then she tapped the "Daily Quest – Day 1". After being tapped, The System changed to [Day 1 - Do 10 push-ups]
Scarlet looked at The System as if she was looking at trash and asked: "WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE TO DO EXERCISE?"
[Please calm down, remember there will be a punishment if you don't do it.]
After being reminded of the punishment, she slowly did 10 push-ups, though if anyone saw it they wouldn't even see it as exercise due to how lazily she did it.
[Daily Quest rewards - +1 Additional Stat Point, +1 Money Point, +10 Attraction, -1 Attraction, +3 HP, +3 Agility, +3 Stamina and +3 Strength.]
[I will now show your current status, I made the numbers look neater, now the readers will feel less annoyed when reading the stats.]
[Name - Scarlet Dragonclaw
Age – 15
Sex - Female
Level - 1
Title – The One Cursed By A God
HP - 10/10(+0)
MP - 10/10(+0)
Strength - 5(+0)
Stamina - 5(+0)
Agility - 5(+0)
Perception – 10(+0)
Attraction – 0
Attraction - 30
Additional Stat Points – 1
Money Points - 1
Skills -
Status effects – Bad luck
Daily Quest – Day 1 (Complete)
Quests - ]
Scarlet looked at The System with an annoyed expression and said: "I. Am. Going. To. Sleep!"
[It will be your 16th birthday tomorrow, I will give you a good birthday quest tomorrow!]
Scarlet had already fallen asleep without reading the message, and The System started thinking of a fun quest to give Scarlet tomorrow. However, despite it sounding like it is about to make a nice birthday present, Scarlet would have definitely paled despite being completely white if she heard its thoughts.