~ 1 day later ~
I opened my eyes, rubbing my head in pain, slowly regaining my memories of what I did earlier. 'So that's what happened huh...', I remembered passing out but completing my task beforehand. From what I could gather, although a bit hazy to remember, was that the system transported me here or assumed to be the system. I remember barely seeing a blue light cover me, before I went here. Other than that, I felt different... .
Unusually so, my body felt lighter, and I felt much MUCH stronger, even with my adaption kicking in, I shouldn't be this powerful by my estimations. Next, I stood up examining myself, My skin was now a sun kissed white, with a faint brown complexion, my hair was far longer as well, easily reaching the bottom half of my back, and strangely it was a bit lighter than it used to be. With a extremely small part of my hair being pure white, ethereal was what I could describe it as, it was emanating a faint glow as well. I seemed to have grown a bit taller as well too, now being around 5,9.
I checked my appearance by a near by lake that was here. I was shocked to say the least. I was now a solid 5 or 6 in the looks department, My eyes having a faint crimson hue to them, I could probably go higher score higher if you take into account my new 'features' now , not that it mattered. I had no one to show said looks too.
Though, after examining myself, I thought about something strange. Going back through the events of what transpired an unknown amount of time ago, was the movements of the ape. like creature, I went through my mind palace, focusing on what I had seen with perfect clarity. The monster, I scanned through its behavioral patterns, and where it chased me and where it turned, every move that rendered it suspicious. 'Interesting, It's like it was purposefully leading me to a dead end...'. And that's when it hit me. If the monsters could grow strong physically, why couldn't they grow mentally as well?
That damn ape creature Knew my location the moment I got here, and it marked me for days!, the system told me as well that it was doing so. And its movements where in such a order, that it was leading me into a place I couldn't no WOULDN'T be able to escape. 'Tsk', I was foolish, to think it could be that easy, but, now I know why it was so 'off', but since I was focusing on survival. I didn't pay enough attention to its schemes.
Lessoned learned, higher zones have higher intelligent creatures as well with a possible growing intellect as well. Now that mental note was made, I needed to ask the system about what was going on. These changes that are happening with my body are clearly unknown and not by me either.
"System!, what has occurred with the amount of time I was unconscious and now." I said expecting answers.
{YES HOST. AFTER YOU HAD COMPLETED THE QUEST. THE HOST WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, AND DUE TO SAID CONDITION, MY EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS WERE INITIATED. AFTER THAT, WE TELEPORTED YOU TO THE SAFEST LOCATION IN TIS ZONE AND USED ONE OF THE REWARDS FROM THE QUEST TO AID YOUR RECOVERY. BE ADVISED HOST, I CAN ONLY USE EMERGENCY TELEPORTATION ONCE EVERY EARTH MONTH}
'Interesting', The system actively went of its way to help me recover, that can mean one thing. It has some sort of sentience or personality. This was good information, since it wasn't an asshole like the other fanfic systems that had ego or personality as well. It was nice and always helpful. This can be considered another perk as well in and of its own.'
{HOST, I RECOMEND THAT YOU CHECK YOUR STATUS AND INVENTORY FORYOUR REWARDS, AS THEY ARE INTRIGAL TO YOUR GROWTH :)}
'Hmmm...', "Status!".
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-STATUS-
NAME: NONE
AGE: 15
RACE: HUMAN, ARTIFICIAL DEMON (NEW) 25% SYNC
HEIGHT: 5,7.5FT --> 5,9FT
WEIGHT: 350P --> 475P
HEALTH: 33250/32350 [ STR+END x 250 ]
ENERGY: LOCKED
STR: 24 -->69
END: 31 --> 64
AGI: 29 --> 65
PER: 15 -->57
INT: 345 -->372
DEX: 19 --> 57
LUC: 2--> 4
ABILITIES: NIL
PASSIVES: INFINITE LATENT PONTENTIAL-EX, ADAPTABILITY-A, PRECOGNITION-I,
PERKS;
QUICK SILVER-M(NEW): YOU ARE QUICK! Allows you to move in bursts of speed 3x that of normal. Has a cooldown of 2 minutes. Warning, host does not have to mind the cooldown, only with a price of your legs if used consecutively. (Can be stacked with potential passives).
DUODEXTERIOUS-M(NEW): GREAT LIMBS MOVE ALIKE. You can control both your arms and legs as if they were your dominant arm or leg individually.
SUPER PERCEPTION-M(NEW): YOU ARE THE TRUE FLASH! Allows the user to freely control his own perception up to 5x that of normal. (Can be stacked with potential passives).
TANKY-I: YOUR PRIORATIZE YOUR HEALTH OVER WEALTH! your health modifier increased from 50 to 250x your strength plus endurance.
STRONG BONES-M: YOUR BONES ARE YOUR FOUNDATION! Your bones are no longer normal, due to abnormal pressure, they have condensed and hardened beyond normal human limits and thus your bones are now made out of iron. LITERALLY. Improves your strength, while improving your durability even more.
REGENERATION-A: ON THE WAY TO IMMORTALITY! You can regenerate faster than normal humans. WARNING, this perk has still not reached the level of limb regeneration, but it is still 12 00% faster than what normal humans can feasibly do. You can now reattach lost limbs if they have been severed within a 30 minute timeframe.
MATHEMATICAL PRECOGNITION-A: YOU CAN SEE THE EQUATIONS! You can predict the future via viewing the 'numbers', thus allowing you to 'calculate' rather than just look normally into the future.
HYPERMIND-A: YOU THINK BEYOND THE LIKES OF HUMAN COMPREHENSON! You are able to learn anything with a whooping x500% increased speed! Also grants true eidetic memory and the mind palace access at will.
ENERGY GENERATOR-A: YOUR POWER IS OVER 9000!!!!!. Your energy modifier has now increased, rather than INT x 25, your new modifier will be INT x 5000!.
GENIUS-M: Doubles your learning speed for knowledge and magical oriented activities, as well as enhancing the bearers mental faculties.
THE TRAINING MANIAC-I: You live and die for strength!. Enhances your training gains by 200% (stacks with potential passives in the future).
THE PERFECT BEING-I: You are perfect and you know it! gives a 200% bonus to all physical stats, even when focusing on a single stat, such as strength (stacks with potential passives).
MARTIAL PRODIGY-M: You are the chosen one. Allows you to learn and comprehend martial arts by 400% (stacks with potential passives in the future).
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"INCREDIBLE!", I was more than 20x stronger than the last time. How could I have grown so much? Could it be the new and upgraded perks giving me such a massive boost?, perhaps it was my adaptability going into overdrive.
But, whatever it is. I'm grateful, since. I can have my revenge on that son of a bitch.
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AUTHUR: You guys might be saying he got way too strong, too quickly, but this was only due to the new race, perks, poison recovery and adaption kicking in. Serving to boost the MC to this level. Note that these boosts are rare, especially since the mc wont get himself into said situations often if ever again.