Year 0002, The Imperium
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It is a new day and a new dawn; August's body clock would naturally wake him up without fail, the same time every day without a miss.
After a huge stretch from his bed, he rose up and started the day with a run.
Today he decided to run around his newly erected 'WALL' (fence).
He made sure that it wasn't loose and no beast managed to trample it.
After his tenth lap around the perimeter, the system notified him.
[ S Y S T E M : YOU HAVE GAINED AN INCREASE IN YOUR STAMINA +0.1 ]
This baffled August; this thing could not do this before!
"Huh?!? Well, that is new."
To test it out, he did a few more laps until the tenth lap around the perimeter when another message prompted him.
[ S Y S T E M : YOU HAVE GAINED AN INCREASE IN YOUR STAMINA AND ENDURANCE +0.1 ]
"Ohhhhhh, so now it gives me another increase, and it's for my endurance??? That is neat!"
Time to make an experiment with the other forms!
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So he did all of his routine exercises to see how much increase he could get.
An excited August kept going until his stamina could no longer sustain him.
Well, with the Willpower stat, it also gives him a slight boost to push through beyond exhaustion.
And so he did his final sets beyond his usual limit.
He deduced that the more you would do a certain activity, the better the rewards.
And it not only increases one of your stats, but it would also affect your other stats.
Doubling the reward for doing something with increasing volume and intensity.
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After this exhausting session, August was now lying on the dirt, panting and out of breath.
He rested there for a while, and when Gel saw him there, she ran towards him, panicking, thinking he passed out again.
After he saw the girl with a worried expression etched on her face, he dismissed her worries with a thumbs up!
She helped him up, and they went back inside so he could get a change of clothing, and he also needed to cook for their breakfast.
Gel still didn't trust her cooking skills.
After yesterday, they decided to let her cook their dinners.
After the short rest, a refreshed August sat down at his father's favorite chair, and he began his wandering gaze into nothingness to summarize his morning.
This was Gel's perspective of him, dazed.
And by now August remembered that all the upgrade sounds must be the effect of him unlocking the [Personal Panel].
For the first time, he accessed his [System Panel].
With the amount of notifications he got this day.
He did basic math, and overall he gained an increase of 0.6-1.2 on the stats that he trained.
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The different exercises gave him different areas of stat/s increase.
In summary, mainly every exercise gave him a boost in three different stats.
Doing pushups would increase his strength, stamina, and vitality.
Squats would increase his agility, stamina, and mobility.
Sit-ups would increase his strength, endurance, and vitality.
And running would increase his speed, agility, and endurance.
The increase is based on the value of sets or laps depending on what he would do.
If he did 10 reps for 3 sets of push-ups, that would increase his stats by +0.3. (10 reps would give him +0.1, and doing 3 sets would give him +0.3.
And if he did 5 laps with every lap, the distance that he ran should be equivalent to half a kilometer; it would increase his stats by +0.1.
And that was just for the exercise that he did, but what other things could give him a stat increase, he wondered.
For his stat increase before he could access the Personal Panel, he averaged +0.3 per day, and that was 3 months ago.
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[ S Y S T E M : ]
-MISSION PANEL-
-PERSONAL PANEL-
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After some time, he dismissed the system notification, but what surprised him was that before he could access the [Personal Panel], the most.
Was that the [Personal Panel] that was a separate menu from his [Mission Panel]?
As he pressed on the [Personal Panel], it glowed and showed him a bunch of letters and numbers.
What would be shocking for anyone else was that he understood what it all meant.
{A/N: At this point, if you are wondering why he somewhat knew and understood what was written in his panel and how to do math.
The moment he unlocked his [Personal Panel], the [SYSTEM] gave him the basics, but only when he had access to the [SYSTEM PANEL.}
PS: But this does not mean he can now read books or write; outside this, he still needs to learn how to read and write. :P
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[...PERSONAL PANEL...]
NAME: AUGUST
AGE: 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS, AND 25 DAYS
A/N: (*In Centuury, there are 13 months in a year, with each month equivalent to 28 days, and a single day isn't 24 hours; it's 36.)
GENDER: MALE
RACE: HUMAN
[STATS]:
• STRENGTH: 6+26.4 (+3)
• AGILITY: 6+26.4
• STAMINA: 6+26.4
• DEXTERITY: 6+25.2
• MOBILITY: 6+25.8
• ENDURANCE: 6+26.4
• SPEED: 6+25.6
• WILLPOWER: 6+2(+4) (-10%)
• VITALITY: 6+26.4 (+3)
• MAGIC: (LOCKED)
• INTELLIGENCE: 6 (+2)
OVERALL STAT: +25.5% (ON SUB-STAT, ATTACK AND DEFENSE, MAGIC IS STILL LOCKED)
[SUB-STAT]:
• ATTACK: 6 (+25.5) 7.5
• MAGIC ATTACK: (LOCKED)
• DEFENSE: 6 (+25.5%) 7.5
• MAGIC DEFENSE: (LOCKED)
LEVEL: 3 (100/3000)
While he was confused, overwhelmed, and pondering what some of this means, his [SYSTEM] prompted him that he could access an information panel that would expound to give him descriptions and examples that he needed.
A wild grin appeared on his face as he understood that this was an important thing.
So he accessed the info panel for his level.
[INFO PANEL]:
(*At base level 0, August would need 1,000 XP to level up to 1; an additional 1,000 is added until he reaches level 5 (5,000 XP).
After level 5, there is an increase of 1,500 XP added per level until he is level 15 (i.e., level 6, 6,500 XP at level 10, 12,500 XP).
After that, there would be an increase of 2,000 exp per level. (i.e., Lvl 16, 22,000 xp)
[INFO PANEL]: (*At base level 0 he would have 0 stats; every increase in level would automatically give him a permanent +2 in his base stats.*)
After reading, he nodded at this...
JOB: FARM HAND (+2 STRENGTH)
CLASS: N/A
TITLES: SURVIVOR (+2 VITALITY, +3 WILLPOWER)
SKILLS: HIDDEN
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After perusing his stats and sub-stats window, he finally noticed that there is also [BODY STAT] and a floating representation of a holographic human body that was just his size.
It mostly indicates the overall health of each body part: head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg.
The holographic body parts have different colors in them.
He accessed the system info panel; it informed him that there are 5 colors in total:
°GREEN (healthy),
°YELLOW (ok),
°ORANGE (concerning),
°RED (life-threatening), and
°BLACK, which means it can no longer be healed.
Those with at least 90 value are greener than the rest that are below 90 in value.
It slightly changes in color for every -10 in the total valuation of the body part.
He shivered in thought; he didn't want to know what might happen if the color turned to black.
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There is also information about afflictions.
[INFO PANEL:] An affliction causes a debuff and affects the overall health and stats of the host.
From his observation, the decrease in health value indicates that he sustained an injury, or was exhausted, or contracted an affliction.
Like curses, ailments, etc.
The amount of percentage debuff given would depend on the type of affliction he would get:
° Slight (1-5%),
° Mild (6-15%),
° Severe (16-50%),
° Life-threatening (51-90%)
° Mortal Wound (-100%)
There are also lingering types of afflictions that can only be overcome with time, and some not at all.
And such afflictions could stack, depending on which body part was affected.
And his stats come into play by giving him a percentage buff to his recovery and overall health.
While his stats would give him an increase in his health, there is also the problem that some afflictions could directly affect him through a stat debuff.
[BODY STAT]:
HEAD: 85.5/100—YELLOW GREEN (-5%)
TORSO: 85/100—YELLOW GREEN
LEFT ARM: 95/100—GREEN
RIGHT ARM: 93/100—GREEN
LEFT LEG: 85/100—YELLOW GREEN
RIGHT LEG: 83/100—YELLOW GREEN
OVERALL HEALTH: 526/600 (Vitality
Multiplier + 35.4%) (Debuff - 10%) = 642/812
[AFFLICTION]:
°Slight Nausea: -5% Head Health
°Lingering Trauma: -10% Mental Stability
°Mild Exhaustion: -10% Overall Health
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Upon absorbing so much information from the system, he had a slight headache.
So he closed the [Personal Panel] and took the rest of the day off.
At least now he knows how this thing works.
No wonder there was a flood of information before when he got his [Personal Panel] unlocked.
It was all being held back from informing him; now he could only shudder in thought after what happened the other day...