Chapter 72 – Tuna & Jelly Power Leveling
While everyone was waiting for Crystal to finish her shopping, Misha cooked the Kraken and shared it with Kai, Thorn, and Tama.
Taking advantage of the red gel's effect, [99% hunger gauge for seven days], Misha could eat as many pieces of grilled octopus without getting full.
Two hundred extra free stats were the bonus for this seafood. Thorn also got the bonus from it as well, and he secretly collected a portion for Crystal, hiding the food from Kai and Tama.
Meanwhile, Kai and Tama fought for the remaining octopus.
*Mew!* (Mine!)
*Ong!* (Mine!)
Six tentacles from Kai and six tentacles from Tama swiped through the cooked octopus, devouring the Kraken as if they were the embodiment of black holes.
It took Crystal an hour before she completed her shopping. When she came back, the gigantic Kraken was also left with half of its previous size.
"You guys ate it too fast!"
"Don't worry chief! I've saved a portion for you!"
Misha had already stopped eating when she obtained all 200 points. Since she could not gain any more free attributes from the Kraken, she planned to resell the remaining octopus to other soldiers in the base.
"Stop eating the octopus, Tama. Your promised big fishes are here."
*NOM-NOM MEW!* (Big fish!)
*NON-NOM ONG!* (Tuna!)
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Crystal bought four kinds of tunas, the yellowfin, the bluefin, the skipjack, and the bigeye. Each of them could bestow 150 to 250 points of free tributes, so Crystal stocked three of each type for Misha. A couple of small fishes and vegetables were also in Crystal's bags, but those were her dinner for today.
The cost of these tunas was cheaper than Misha had imagined as Crystal dumped the price to the point that all fish merchants cried, only two red gel.
Misha could not help but praised Crystal, "What a perfect housewife."
Thorn patted his bloated stomach with a proud smile, "That's right! That's my chief!"
"Have you ever asked her out yet?"
"Well, I did. She turned me down ... Wait a minute. How did you know!?"
"Maybe if you work harder and lower your weed consumption, she might give you a chance?"
Thorn sulked, but he shook his head, "Marijuana is my first wife, and Crystal is my mistress! I won't give up my priority!"
At this moment, a foot planted in the middle of Thorn's face, "WHO'S YOUR MISTRESS, YOU JUNKIE!?"
From the power of Crystal's thrusting kick, Thorn flew away and landed in the middle of the remaining of the giant octopus.
Thorn could not see it, but Misha noticed it. Crystal was blushing as she revealed a faint smile.
'What a complicated couple. If you like Thorn, you should have just confessed to him.'
Misha did not say anything to this weird couple. She left them to their fate.
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10 PM.
Tama got her tunas, and all preparation had been completed.
Guns and bullets,
Grenades,
A bulletproof vest and a new exoskeleton,
Misha was now ready to depart, standing near the exit of the base.
After that shopping, Misha still stockpiled 682 red gels! Out of all 682 jellies, 652 of them belonged to the Hydra Amro, so she could not eat it. Therefore, Misha entrusted 650 of them with Crystal.
Crystal took 50 out of the pile of 650 for the weapon and exoskeleton cost. However, if Misha could return the equipment, Crystal would repurchase them depending on the weaponry's condition.
For the other two inedible jellies, she traded them into green gels and yellow gels, so she could eat them to boost her current level.
Unfortunately, green gels could only raise her level to 70. For the higher level, Misha had to eat yellow gels to increase her character EXP.
Again, yellow gels could only raise her level to 100. For the higher level, Misha would have to grind by killing humans or destroying vehicles instead of eating.
Tama and Kai took Misha's leftover yellow and green gels to eat as they had not consumed these condensed milk for a while.
As for the other 30 edible red gels, they could not increase her EXP. Misha kept them with herself, just in case of emergency when she could not find food.
Her skill was also in a similar limitation. The yellow gels and green gels could get most of her mutant skills to 50. For the further level, Misha had to grind them herself.
On the other hand, tunas gave her a huge boon.
100 free attributes points from yellowfin tunas,
250 points from bluefin tunas,
200 points from skipjack tunas,
230 points from bigeye tunas,
Combined with her unspent 195 free attributes from the level-up bonus from level 61 to 100, Misha had 975 unused points!
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Name – Misha
Race – Inferno Dragonewt
Class – Unassigned Combat Class
Level – 100/200
EXP – 0/20,000
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Free Attribute – 975
STR – 151/1,080 (68.58%)
VIT – 343 /1,843 (10.07%)
STM - 300/1,826 (9.12%)
AGI – 199/1,076 (20.59%)
DEX – 167/1,076 (5.18%)
INT – 501/1,118 (17.58%)
WIS – 376/1,076 (42.25%)
Luck – 19/115
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Inferno Mastery – 1/200
Self-Regeneration – 50/201
Pheromone – 50/101
Acidic Fluid - 50/101
Polymorph – 4/101
Pyrokinesis: Burning Resistance – 60+1/201
Pyrokinesis: Blast – 1+1/201
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As Crystal's reminder, the boon from tunas was one-time, which Misha would not gain anymore benefit from these tunas again. Therefore, she had to be careful where she would put these free points.
The skill caps and status caps Misha got from the fish steaks and gels increased a moderate amount of her max potential statuses, but they were useless to her at the moment.
Misha stared at her status with a frown. She could not decide which attribute to increase with all these free attributes.
Although Misha's status caps increased from eating gels and fishes, the status allocation was still her dilemma.
'Should I put everything into my VIT and be done with it?'
She had an idea about being the walking tank as Crystal had said. By having over 1300 points in VIT, Misha thought she might be invincible like a real tank.
'I have my psychic skills in my real body, so I should focus on raising my survivability for now.'
With such thought, Misha put everything into her VIT, increasing it to 1,318!
After Misha finished allocating her status, she could feel that her blood flow was smoother than before. Each breath she inhaled absorbed more oxygen into her blood cells, and those blood cells became a firm ball of tiny monsters, running around and supplying energies to other body systems.
"So broken. It was only 343 before."
While Misha was elated because of her new stats, Tama shouted in shock!
*MYAAAA!* (WTF!?)
"What's wrong, Tama?"
*MEW!* (It's me that have to ask you, what's wrong!)
*Mew-Mew-Mew!* (Your skin and muscle suddenly contracted and squeezed my arms!)
*MYA!* (It was like, you're crushing me!)
*MEW!* (What's the matter with you!?)
Misha closed her mouth, "Err, whoops!"
Suddenly increasing many VIT points harmed Tama. As her muscular system received the boost from her status, they damaged Tama's tentacles and her blood vessels within the muscles.
"I'm sorry, Tama. Can I do anything to help you? If I transform into Mia, will you be okay?"
*MEW!* (YES PLEASE!)
*MEW!* (I LOVE IT HOT!)
'Come to think of it, Tama can regenerate by being in a hot climate area. Then, I'll transform.'
Misha transformed into Mia.
*Meh-Heh Mew* (Oh yes, baby! Let me touch your big burning heart!)
*Myaaaa* (Ah, your heart is so hot and so big. I love it!)
Tama's mini tentacles and her new blood vessels clung onto Mia's heart, feeling the warm blood.
"…"
Mia ignored Tama's banana behavior and turned to Crystal and Thorn, who came with her to send her off.
"I'm off, Crystal, Thorn."
"Come back safe, Misha."
"Come back safe, little Mish. I'll teach you how to puff a joint when you-ACK!"
"Don't teach her about your junk!"
Mia smiled at them and walked toward the base entrance.
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Upon reaching the entrance, there was a group of people waiting for her. They were the Tautog pilots and crews, including Dolphin.
Dolphin walked to Mia, "You don't have to do this. We know this is a suicide mission, and Sebastian has been doing something fishy during these past years. Even if he wants to kick you out, he doesn't have the authority to do it."
"That's right, Miss. You don't have to follow that bastard's condition!"
"We understand you, Miss. You can stay with us if that Sebastian forbids you to be in the base!"
Mia did not look at anyone's eyes. He walked toward the exit with a bike that Crystal gave him.
Mia could have bought a mech from another team to use it in this mission. Since he did not know how he could pilot the machine, he chose not to head to the city with a mech.
Walking pass Dolphin, Mia's eyes gleamed in yellow light. Sparkles of fire and crackles of electricity surrounded him.
"I'll bring Brim back in one piece shortly."
Mia hopped on the bike, started the engine, and drove away, leaving all Tautog crews behind.
All Tautog crews looked at the departing Mia's back with respect. Some of them saluted toward Mia's leaving direction.
Dolphin also gazed at Mia in admiration, but he recalled something important.
"I forgot to ask her to pay me back for my tuna."
"…"
All Tautog crews stared at Dolphin with a strange expression.