Derrick pondered for a while and opened the "Admin Commands" window. The three buttons suddenly retracted and a window suddenly appeared in his view, also revealing a wide bar below.
Inside the bar, you can type anything as long as the system recognizes the commands. Typical gamers would search on the internet for cheat codes but Derrick knew nothing about that.
There is no such thing as the internet in this world.
He doesn't even know what "Admin Commands" would mean.
There is also a virtual keyboard below the bar, revealing alphabets, numbers, and symbols in the default QWERTY format.
Derrick didn't know the use of this button but because he has the freedom to type anything, he would always type what is on his mind.
Because of this reason, he typed out:
['Butterfly']
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He pressed the button "Enter" and instantly, the word in the bar disappeared, then reappeared at the top of the bar.
[// Butterfly]
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There is no response to the system. He waited for some time, but still, nothing happened.
Feeling helpless, he faintly sighed and closed the window. The animation of the opening and closing are the same but reversed. The three buttons also appeared in his view.
Derrick then opened the "Stats" window, observing a format that stayed on him since birth.
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[Stats]
[Health Points]: 95 / 100 — [Regenerating 1 Health per hour]
[Mana]: 0/1 — [Regenerating 0 Mana per hour]
[Stamina]: 12/38 — [Regenerating 1 Stamina per second]
[Physical Potential: Not Awakened]
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[A/N: Everything you know in of Health, Mana, and Stamina are more or less the same. You can skip these parts if you don't particularly like the maths below. Physical Potential is the only addition to my power system, so make sure to read that part. ^_^]
From his understanding, the user's health display is the state of his physical well-being. If he is injured in any way physically, he loses health and vice versa. There are two hidden stats that can affect the user's health display: 'health 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧' 𝐚𝐧𝐝 '𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡'.
'𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧' shows how your body repairs itself with its cells. It is also the base factor that will help the body regenerate its health. Its base value in the case for Derrick is 𝟏.
On the other hand, 'mental health' affects how much percentage of the 'health regeneration' will regenerate your body.
'𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡' as known as "𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝." The base percentage of mental health is 𝟏𝟎𝟎%. the lower your mental health is, the lower your percentage will be and vice versa. The percentage can rise by over 150% or even 200%. The higher the percentage, the higher the requirement to raise it. The percentage can also reach 0% or even -100%.
'Mental health' ��𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 '𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.' The health of the mind is important, it must be properly taken care of because the health of the mind is fragile like a vase, if it breaks, there's little to no way of fixing it back.
Confusing, right? Let me give you an example:
Derrick was injured because of the force of the rock, therefore sustaining light injuries. He would have to rest for 5 hours before his health goes back to full.
In numbers, the values precisely calculate as:
The damage dealt by a rock is 5, his health regeneration is 1 per hour, his mental health percentage is 100% and his total health is 100.
In mathematics, we translate it as (100 - 5) + 𝟏(𝟏𝟎𝟎%)/𝐡𝐫 ≥100.
So his total health should now be 95 hp, and he will recover 1 hp for every hour. If nothing will happen to Derrick on this period, he will immediately be healed after 5 hours. In other words, health will be directly subtracted by the damage, and recovering(regenerating) from the damage takes time.
The formula is (total health - damage) + 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐱 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 / recovery time less than or equal to total health.
Mana is the only 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 to make magic. It is only present when the user has a mana body.
The more mana the user can hold links directly to the growth of Physical Potential, which will be explained in the later chapters.
Mana does not equate to damage though, the damage dealt only if the magic directly or indirectly hits the enemy.
'Mana Regeneration' happens when the user triggers their mana body to absorb matter around them and filter it to become mana. Experienced users unconsciously regenerate mana if their mana pool isn't full.
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚 is the ability to sustain the effort, both physically and mentally. Running takes stamina, thinking also takes stamina.
When your stamina reaches 0, you will enter a state called 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. There is also a hidden stat called stamina regeneration, it regenerates stamina every second for the youthful body of Derrick.
In Derrick's case, his base stamina regeneration is 1/𝐬. There is a catch though, the harder the effort of his action will be, the lower the stamina regeneration he has.
For example; Derrick ran for 52 seconds to catch butterflies, running takes 1 stamina every 2 seconds. His total stamina is 38. In mathematics, we can translate it as: 38 - (𝟓𝟐/𝟐) = 38 - 𝟐𝟔 = 12.
The formula is total stamina - 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭/𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 = new Stamina.
[A/N: You can also comment if you have better ideas about the formula above this note, be brutally honest guys because I'm open to criticisms. What I want the most is to improve my writing skills and how I convey them to you, readers.]
The origins of the system are not that rare, however. Everyone in the Virtualis Continent is born with a system.
The only thing that divides the strong from the weak is the 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥.
From what Derrick heard, 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 measures from 𝐅 𝐭𝐨 𝐒, from Weakest to Strongest respectively.
For what he had heard from his parents. He will join the Awakening Ceremony for his Physical Potential the very month when he reaches 10.
It is an important event for him since it will determine what his future would be like.
The Awakening Ceremony is a monthly calling organized by the Gods above. The sacred platform inside holy temples would awaken and manipulates its power to awaken everyone's physical potential the moment they stand on the platform.
It is only a month away until Derrick joins the Awakening Ceremony. It is where he will realize what his future beholds.
As an energetic child, he is innately curious about the system. He tried to experiment with ways to spend health, mana, and stamina, with a lot of silly ways, and also tried to increase its value.
Unfortunately, he only knows how to increase the total value of his stamina. Yes, draining stamina is a dumb way of increasing stamina.
For other attributes such as health and mana, he tried sorts of idiotic ways like making his arm bleed, punching his chest hard enough to make himself shout, trying to imitate wizards in the books. None of it worked.
Derrick recounted his nostalgic memories before he heard the voice of Luna and her mother.