Chapter 3 - Rolling (2/2)

'Current time: Day 1, 8:12:32 a.m.'

”Hm... I've only wasted a few minutes on checking my current abilities. Anyways, [Roll].'

After muttering the skill name, a faint green energy started to envelop Aurus' body in a way that propelled him forward. He could feel that he could change the direction of his movement, but with the blue path in front of him leading the way, he saw that there was no need to change it.

”If I factor in everything that will happen to me along the way, it would take me around a day or two to reach that place.”

At this moment, Aurus' eyes gleamed. ”But I have that skill so it'll only take me a day at most!”

”Onward to that place that I can't say because I feel like someone will explain it later on!”

Whoosh!

Although a whoosh sound could be heard, Aurus was moving at a pace that could be compared to the speed of a snail's movement, but he endured it since he would speed up soon enough.

”Hehe. This is gonna take a while,” Aurus couldn't help but say.

As Aurus was moving towards the place at an excruciatingly slow pace...

*Vsauce music plays”

Hey, Heavenly Body here. What...are stats?

Hehe, I told you that I'd be explaining stats and the other things sooner or later so here I am.

Anyways, there are three stats to take note of: Toughness, Thickness, and Density.

Toughness is equivalent to the Defense stat in MMORPGs, Thickness is equivalent to the Vitality stat in MMORPGs, and Density is equivalent to the Attack stat in MMORPGs.

And that's all pretty much. No wait, there's something else. Although these three stats fulfill their roles, they still have hidden connections with one another. I don't know how they're connected but it exists.

Also, the stats that our Aurus has are only the three basic stats that every player has in ISE. Once he evolves to a certain point and reaches a certain existence level, he could obtain more stats like Intelligence, Spirit, Element Affinity and so on.

Now let's move on to the other stuff, specifically existence level and grades.

At this point in time, you might be bored already after reading this heavenly body's long explanation but...

Bear with me a little bit more.

Existence levels are basically a measurement on the sentience and power of a certain species. So far, you only need to know of two existence levels: Inanimate which is Aurus' current existence level, and Animate, the existence level after Inanimate.

They're self-explanatory so I won't explain any further. As for grades...

You know how some species are stronger than other species? That's because of grades. Although a lot of species are at the same existence level, when their grades are taken into consideration, some can do more than others.

Anyways, there are only five grades to take note of: C, B, A, S and X from lowest to highest respectively.

These grades affect not only existence levels but also skills as well...although I'll delve deeper into that part later on.

Anyways, I have to get going now. Something special is going to happen to Aurus soon.

*swoop*

Two hours have passed since Aurus enabled the [Roll] skill.

Aurus looked at the triangle on top of his stick body and looked at the number above it.

748.

”It has already been two hours and I've only moved 2 meters. This is definitely going to take a while.”

Ding!

At this moment, Aurus was surprised. Shouldn't that notification sound come up one hour later, he thought. But then he remembered that specific skill and then smiled.

'[Roll] has leveled up.'