Emerging from her igloo, a clean Mia had rose, her eyes slightly red and puffy but besides that she was ready to go, everything was fine!
She reached inside her item box and pulled out piece of jerky, shoved it all down in a single bite, and took off. “Ami, what direction to the port?” she asked, her sense of direction lost since the dungeon incident.
[…]
She received no answer.
“Ami?” at first she was confused, but then it quickly dawned on her. “Oh, right. Oops.” She had disabled her during her excitement at getting the skill orb. She re-enabled her.
[Assist mode enabled] the familiar voice rung out in side Mia’s head […Do you want to talk about it?]
“Talk about what?” she asked with a smile.
[Never mind… turn right]
“Kay.” Mia leaped up, slamming into a tree and kicking off it, sending herself flying to the right. During her run she also remembered how many stat points she was sitting on, deciding it best to do so now while she was running.
[You know, it wouldn’t hurt to save and load back for a day? Take a bre-]
“Ami.” Mia stopped in place, looking up at the sky “Do you want to be disabled again?” she asked, the ground around her freezing with a thin layer of ice.
[…sorry, continue.]
“Good.” She smiled “Nothing is wrong, everything is ok!” she continued her dash. She knew Ami was right, but she didn’t want to do that, going back and indulging like that, for what?
For it to end the next day?
So she could watch her die the next day?
No, she would not be spoiled like that. She would not settle for that.
She took a deep breath and continued.
“I need something to fight.”
She ran for a few days, sometimes she would come across a monster to fight, others it would just be an uneventful day of running, distributing stats, and more running. Eventually she finished with the stats and was even surprised she acquired a new skill.
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Name: Mia
Status: None
Age: 8
Race: Fox Beastman
LVL: 40
Points: 0
HP: 1,510/1510 MP: 5,300/5,300
Str: 101 > 151
Con: 110 > 150
Dex: 750 > 895
Int: 695 > 1,000
Mnd: 265
Lck: 1
She had decided to put a few points into strength and constitution, if anything to get more health and to be just a bit stronger… that singular odd point in strength was making her mad every time she noticed it.
Dexterity and intelligence got the rest, she noticed the difference with dexterity over the days, as her pace and movability improved leaps and bounds, literally. She also started to notice something odd about her body once she passed the 700 mark that she didn’t notice during the chase, she had become more flexible.
She had first noticed it while brushing her tail, one odd event lead to another and she found herself lying on her back with both legs stuck firmly behind her head. And after some experimenting once she hit 895 she was touching her toes while bending backwards.
She was afraid of pointing that any further.
Ami had pipped up at some point and reassured her part of it was just due to how young she was and unless she actively worked to keep that level of flexibility it would lessen, she was not having it.
She did not want to end up like a worm and decided to just even out Int.
The effects of that were…
Mia looked around at the frozen tundra she found herself in, the ground frozen over in a thick layer of ice while trees frozen in crystal clear ice pillars as snow fell from the sky, a deafening silence overtaking the forest.
It was pretty intense, combined with the her snow maiden title all this ice was almost like an extension of herself, she wanted a pillar to emerge behind her? It was up before she finished the thought. A chair to fall into? Done, with enough time to spare to make the backrest snowflake themed.
A knife? How about 20, she even managed to make a life-sized ice doll of herself and move it around, but she found it creepy, so she shelved it until Cy had been more forgotten about.
To her surprise she found out she was able to adjust the clarity of the ice as well, previously all her ice walls had been solid, unable to be seen through, but now she was able to make them crystal clear like with the trees.
This also extended to making mirrors, something that majorly helped with her personal grooming and the cutting of her hair. Her once long hair now cut to chin length, the cut off hair buried.
For the new skill…
[Skill: Jogger, LVL 1: You have run great distances for long periods of time. Reduces fatigue gained by running.]
“Took that one a long time.” She felt like she should have gotten that a long time ago, but glad she finally got it.
Mia had also worked on controlling her [Maiden of Snow] title, which was easier said than done. She made little progress on it, if any. All she managed to do was stop ice from forming on her body, when calm. Ice would still form one what ever she sat on, she’d have a cold mist emit from her if it was humid enough, and if she got worked up all of that would get worse.
But at least she wasn’t flinging around ice shards every time she turned too fast.
But all that passive training came to an end as she made her way out of the huge forest, the unfamiliar scent of sea water assaulting her nose, she stared out from the tree line at the large port in the distance.
“One step closer…” She whispered to herself, pulling up her hood she made her way to the town.