A long period of silence followed Irene's statement.
A silence long enough for the server to come back with both of our coffees and a piece of cake for each of us. A silence long enough for Irene to start snacking on the sweet treat for quite some time before I finally managed to process all that she said.
"Yeah, no matter how hard I think about it, it makes absolutely no fucking sense," I spoke out while heaving a long, resigned sigh. "Any chance for you to explain it again but in a way an idiot would understand?"
No matter how much my intelligence and wisdom stats grew, for all I knew, those stats only referred to the potential performance of my brain. My wisdom allowed me to better store a greater amount of information and guaranteed easier and faster access to all of it. My intelligence attribute allowed me to process all of that information faster and more efficiently.
