Doing what I could to ignore the strange dream, I quickly left the apartment. Though I felt fully rested, only a few hours had passed, and I still had plenty of sun left to continue my training. The only remnant from the previous day was a mild soreness in my muscles.
Pulling up my status, I took a closer look at my progress, pulling up some of the alerts I had been ignoring. Hopefully that would give me a better idea of what to work towards.
Current Stats:
Strength: 12->14!
Agility: 12->14!
Dexterity: 11->12!
Constitution: 14->16!
Charisma: 10->11!
It seemed my night of hard labor came with advantages beyond increased security. Ignoring that for now, I continued reading.
Menu: v1.0.2
Name: Victoria (Vic) Gale
Age: 5 Days
Gender: Female
Race: Monster
Type: Lesser Storm Demi-Paraelemental
Class: Adventurer
Core: 14/30 (T1)
Affinity: Physicality, Storm
Character Archetype: Lone Wanderer
Current:
Maximum:
Regen:
Mana:
70
70
70/hour
General Stats:
Current
Maximum
Effect
Strength
14
17
Physical strength; pushing, pulling, lifting.
Agility
14
17
Physical speed; running speed, acrobatic ability, inertial control.
Dexterity
12
12
Ability to move with finesse and skill, and to move the body as the mind wills.
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Constitution
16
22
The sturdiness of the body; ability to resist damage, poison, and magic.
Intelligence
7
10
Your capacity to learn and remember. Magical strength and capacity.
Wisdom
7
15
Your ability to reason out the best choice. Magical recovery and momentum.
Charisma
11
12
Your likability; affects attractiveness
Luck
10
15
Effects drop rates and personal narrative
Skills: v1.0.2
Proficiency
Effect
General Skills (2/2)
Identify
4/20
Gives user information. Amount and clarity based on identify level. Shows only basic information
Cartography
4/30
Ability to draw and create accurate maps.
Race Skills (3/3)
Stormborn
2/30
Increases the effectiveness of strength, constitution, and wisdom when in stormy conditions (+6%). Grants enhanced regeneration when touching water (+60%). Gain mana from enemy storm attacks. (+12% mana steal)
Storm Cloak
10/30
Your strikes contain the might of storms. You can use mana to fuel powerful physical attacks by cloaking tools with mana.
Electroreceptivity
2/20
You gain a 6th sense to sense electricity in a range of 10ft around you. Grows more powerful with use
Combat Skills (1/1)
Apprentice Swordsmnship (Storm)
1/20
Apprentice swordsmanship techniques and skills from the paraelemntal plane of storms.
Magic Skills (1/1)
Novice Storm Magic
9/30
Chaos Aligned. Control the power of storms.
Archetype Skills (3/3)
Born to Roam
12/100
Skill growth is increased while exploring new places alone (+12%)
First 1!
1/1
You were the first person to be upgraded. Absorbing ambient mana from kills is easier.
Eyes on the Road
2/5
You are born to travel. You have a supernatural ability to wind up where you want to be and senses strong enough to keep you out of trouble.
I scowled, taking in my updated information. There were just four days until the next wave; three until we needed to strike at the cultists, and I still had so much to work on.
I was satisfied with my progress in swordsmanship, and though I wanted to spend more time working on it, I knew that I needed to work in other areas first. The way I could see it, I had three main areas where improvement would lead to sizable increases in power.
First, my stats. Each point increase in stats provided a decent increase in power. Even compared to yesterday before I spent the night working, I felt stronger. My feet were more stable. My body was sturdier. I could only imagine what having something like twenty strength and agility would feel like.
My memories turned to the first real fight I had been in; when I rescued Kaitlyn. I only survived that fight becauase my base stats were so much higher than my enemies. As time passed, that advantage would continue to shrink unless I stayed ahead of the curve.
Recalling the pleasant sensation of absorbing mana I was tempted to spend the next few days constantly hunting monsters to icrease the quality of my core, but I didn’t think that was the best use of my time. Increasing core quality primarily increased the upper limit of my stats. Before I went on a monster killing spree, I first needed to find a stable way to increase my current values. Pulling up the information on General Stats once more, I reread the description.
General Stats: The basic building blocks that make up your physical, mental, and magical form. 10 stat points in a single field denotes the maximum that a basic human could theoretically reach.
Stat points are exponential, each 10 denoting a doubling in strength. Someone with 20 strength is twice as strong as someone with 10. Someone with 30 strength is four times as strong as someone with 10.
Through exercise and use, one can raise a stat’s current value to the new theoretical maximum of their evolved species. Maximum stat limits are raised through receipt and evolution of classes, evolving species, developing a magical core, or reinforcing the body with energy.
NOTE: The method for raising maximum stat limits is dependent on the Race of the individual.
It was rather clear cut now that I understood the system better. By exercising, I could increase my stats up to their maximum. Because I was a monster, to increase my maximum stat values I needed to focus on developing my core, and eventually evolving my species.
The second thing I needed to focus on was magic.
Storm magic was powerful. Ignoring that ability, even though it wasn’t my forte, was foolish. I would continue what I had started yesterday; using my mana just as fast as it regenerated. That would increase my intelligence and wisdom as well as my skills, killing two birds with one stone.
The final area of improvement I could think of was rather simple.
I needed more combat experience.
Every fight I had been in so far had improved my overall capability by leaps and bounds. I better understood my skills, how to use my body, and how to dodge attacks. It all came down to practice. Over the next couple of days, I would fight as many things as I possibly could, until combat became second nature.
With new goals in mind, I set out into the woods.