The official appointment letter will arrive the day after.
The graduation ceremony concluded, Luo Yan returned to his dorm room and happened to see a Messenger Bat perched on the window ledge, frantically tapping at the glass with its wings.
Discarding his shoes, he walked to the window, opened it, and removed the copper tube tied to the bat's leg, pulling out the letter stuffed inside.
As expected, the letter was from Priest Geoffrey.
While expressing care and greetings, the letter also ended with a series of bank account numbers and a password.
"...You are a decisive child, I believe that choosing to become a Demon King was a choice you made after deep reflection, and I am proud and honored by your decision."
"Regarding the matter of living expenses, your father, whom you have never met, actually left you a sum of money, and some of it still remains. Now that you have come of age and graduated, I think it's time to hand it over to you, for you to decide how to use it."
"— Priest Geoffrey."
Luo Yan read the letter to the end, gratefully accepting the bank account and password.
Though he did not know how much money there was, he thought it would be enough to last the month.
From next month on, he would be a salaried man.
However, on second thought, was there really a place to spend money in the Demon King Territory he was about to govern?
Luo Yan remained skeptical about this.
With a heart full of gratitude, he wrote a serious reply and rolled the letter back into the copper tube tied to the bat's leg.
Having finally finished all his tasks, he sat down on the bed, ready to focus on studying the "Catastrophe" system left by a predecessor transmigrator.
[
ID: Luo Yan
Race: Human
Soul Level: Bronze (Maximum Level LV30)
Level: LV30
Experience: (30W/30W)
HP: (800/800)
MP: (2600/2600)
Physique: 8
Strength: 8
Agility: 8
Intelligence: 25
Spirit: 26
]
[Faith Points: 133]
First was the attribute panel.
Although the system did not provide specific formulas for these attributes, it did include explanations for each category.
For example, physique impacts vitality, recovery abilities, and physical resistance; strength affects carrying weight, melee damage; agility affects speed and dexterity; intelligence influences memory, spatial imagination, spell-casting efficiency, and spell power; spirit affects mana.
In the era of Linte Isaac, an average imperial youth soldier's attribute panel was 5/5/5/5/5; it is unclear now.
As for experience, it quantified the process of growth.
As for soul level, it determined the maximum level.
However, generally speaking, most people cannot see their own soul level, which belongs to a divine dimension.
The Catastrophe system not only displayed soul levels but also quantified the abstract concept of "strength" with "LV" values.
For example, the upper limit for Iron Tier is LV10, Bronze is LV30, Fine Steel Tier is LV50, Silver Tier is LV70... and so on in that order.
At the same time, the higher the level, the more difficult it is to upgrade, and the more attribute points are gained with each level.
As for "Race", it determined the initial attributes and talents.
For instance, humans have initial attributes of 3 to 5, and their talent is the relatively weak "Balanced Development"—meaning, the lowest attribute's "growth efficiency" increases by 50%.
Taking Luo Yan himself as an example, his lowest attributes were physique and strength, so he would receive an experience bonus when training these two attributes.
Incidentally, attribute growth does not occur through point allocation after leveling up, but simultaneously with the leveling up.
If he mainly resisted temptations from Enchanting Demons to train his spiritual power at level 19, then when leveling up to 20 after accumulating enough experience, the attributes that would likely grow are those of spirit, rather than inexplicably gaining in strength and physique.
One might say it's unexpectedly realistic.
However, for this reason, the "Balanced Development" talent seems quite weak.
After all, in most cases, a mage doesn't need very high physique and strength.
Moreover, most people have a "maximum level limit", meaning the attribute points they can gain in their lifetime are limited.
Even if engaging in physical labor yields an additional 50% experience, the attribute points gained from leveling up would be added to the less meaningful strength and physique, thereby wasting precious growth space and being counterproductive.
"...According to the theory of the 'Mechanical God', does training strength as a mage backfire?" Luo Yan pondered while staring at the attribute panel.
Although he had not deliberately trained his physical abilities, attribute points had still been assigned to his strength and physique.
Clearly, this was the result of living in Hell for the past eighteen years, accumulating in various ways.
Additionally, looking at his nearly overflowing experience bar, Luo Yan finally understood why he had been stuck at the Bronze level and couldn't advance.
Unfortunately,
his soul level was only Bronze.
If he didn't change the talent ceiling, he could meditate until he died of old age and still not break through the final bottleneck... Linte Isaac might have encountered similar problems.
To raise the soul level without side effects, "Faith Points" were key!
He remembered that in the morning, the attribute panel showed 0 faith points, but by noon it had increased to 113.
Looking at this number alone, Luo Yan couldn't discern any pattern.
This value might have been contributed by another world's player, or provided by some admiring little sister or little brother at the academy.
In any case, further observations were needed.
By the way, upgrading from the Bronze level to the Fine Steel level soul requires ten thousand faith points, so a three-digit increase was like a drop in the bucket.