Tonight I need rest; I'll think about what to do next after I wake up. With that, I fell into a deep slumber.
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"Amerus, are you sure about this?"
"Yes, Markus. As I said before, we are here to choose champions who would stand above all. What you lot are doing but spoon-feeding your candidates."
"We do know that, but what can we do. We don't have much time. He is coming."
"Exactly, for that reason, our champions had to be strong and independent. I'll show my champion a path to become strong. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Whatever, it is your champion. I agree with you, but you intend to go extreme. It may hinder your champion."
Hearing them, the old man Amerus snorted. To him, someone to reach the peak of existence has to be strong and independent without help from anyone.
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'Yawn'
It was noon when I woke up. My body felt relaxed, and the stress was gone. For ten days, I didn't have a good sleep.
Some consider Meditation is better for the body than sleep, but I contradict that statement. Sure I agree that Meditation has its benefits, but for ten days locked in one position, no way. My body ached, and I was one of the lucky ones.
Many people would take at least twenty to thirty days to achieve what I did in ten. Sure I am not a genius by birth, but luck is on my side for now.
I should check my status and use the stacked points. I'm afraid that I will lose points if there is a limit to how many points can be stacked. I'll experiment with that when none of the levels of the attributes can be altered.
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Name: Damon Oswyn
Age: 16
Race: Human
Shop Points: 40
Level Alter points: 55; Cool-down: 24 hours
Level: 1 <+/-> (Locked)
Orbit-1: 1 < +/- >
Affinity: Ice
Grade: Black<->
Innate skill: Ice Dragon Level-1 <+/->
Skills: None
Weapons: None
Health: 12 < +/- >
Strength: 6 < +/- >
Stamina: 6 < +/- >
Speed: 2 < +/- >
Intellect: 42 < +/- >
Essence: 18 <+/ - >
Mana: 10 < +/- >; Mana refill: 1 < +/- >/ minute < +/- >
--
I won't need to level up my Essence or Intellect for now. I should increase my other stats if I have to become stronger.
The most important stats are Health and Speed, as they would decide whether I live or die. If I encounter something or someone of a higher level, my only chance would be to run away. So speed is essential.
As for Health points, I don't think to give a reason as it determines how much longer can I live.
I could allocate all points to the two attributes, but there is one problem with it. I can injure myself running at speed far more than my body can endure. If I increase speed a lot, it will strain my body when I try to run at full speed.
So to use speed properly, I have to increase strength too. Without stamina, my speed burst would only long for some time. If there is a break in my pace, any enemy would be sure to catch me. So I have to increase my stamina as well.
I have a total of 55 points; I'll just assign 10 points to Health, Strength, Stamina, and Speed each. It would be a total of 40, and I would be left with 15 points.
Now with the remaining 15 points, I could increase the satellites, but that may cause some commotion during the recruitment day. I have already increased my magic grade, Essence, and Intellect comparable to the levels of someone that are already above Level-3.
I will just assign these 10 points to increase Mana and 5 points to increase the amount of Mana recovered in a minute. With this, I could be considered a Pseudo Level-4 Magician.
After assigning the points, I immediately pressed the + sign. As the stats increased, I felt the increase in power. With this system, no enemy of mine would survive.
I then checked my status.
--
Name: Damon Oswyn
Age: 16
Race: Human
Shop Points: 40
Level Alter points: 0; Cool-down: 24 hours
Level: 1 <+/-> (Locked)
Orbit-1: 1 < +/- >
Affinity: Ice
Grade: Black<->
Innate skill: Ice Dragon Level-1 <+/->
Skills: None
Weapons: None
Health: 32 (+10) < +/- >
Strength: 16 < +/- >
Stamina: 16 < +/- >
Speed: 12 < +/- >
Intellect: 42 < +/- >
Essence: 18 <+/ - >
Mana: 20 < +/- >; Mana refill: 6 < +/- >/ minute < +/- >
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Huh, Health is definitely weird. It increased as strength and stamina increased but also increased when used the points on it directly.
Next time I think it's better to increase strength and stamina than Health unless it's required.
Now let's check the SHOP.
Before I got to that, I heard someone knocking on my door. It's time for lunch, so it must be either Mary or Thomas knocking on the door. I already missed breakfast; if I miss Lunch, Mary will sure get mad at me.
I should feign that I just got up, or I have to give a reason why I didn't come to eat after missing breakfast. It would be better to tell them my secret, but I fear that it may cause more trouble for them.
Decided what to do, I walked to the door in sleep mode. I opened it to see Mary standing outside the door, and she was not happy.
The moment I opened the door, she shouted at me, "Young Master, How many times did I tell you not to skip food. It is one thing when you are in seclusion, but you came out of seclusion last night. If I knew that you were sleeping and skipped breakfast, I would have sooner returned home and dragged you downstairs."
My fake sleep left me the second I heard her voice. I know what will happen now. It's punishment time. She will push the portions of both breakfast and lunch down my mouth. It would instill fear in me, but the time has changed. She is in for a hell of a surprise.
Wait, if she learns that I can eat more and didn't eat sufficiently last night, Shit, I have to run away from the house.