Chapter 24: Stats upgrades (1/2)

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STATUS

NAME: Shingi Maki

CLASS: None

RACE: Blessed Human

HP: 55/55

SP: 12/12

MP: 32/32

STR: 10

AGI: 11

END: 11

INT: 16

CHA: 4

Mana Pool: Earth and Light Element

Skills: VISUALIZATION (Base Rank), MANA MANIPULATION (Base Rank), MANA SENSE (Base Rank), PERCEPTION (Master Rank), STEALTH (Base Rank), IMPROVISED THROW WEAPON (Master Rank), SMITHING (Base Rank), ACCELERATION (Base Rank), MARTIAL ART (Base Rank)

Spells: MANA HAND (Low Grade), FILTH EATER (Ungraded), MINOR ILLUSION (Ungraded), LIGHT (Ungraded), ROCK THROW (Low Grade)

Blessings: Blessing of ??????, Blessing of Dlog

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Shingi checked his status and decided that his Skills were in a good enough state for now, but if he wanted to improve them, he wouldn't be able to with his current stats. His Mana Skills were easy to use cause he had a high INT already. Cause of his blessings passive effect, in many cases, he could do things way more manageable.

Also, suppose he wanted to unlock more skills. In that case, he could use SPECTATOR MODE and 'transfer' some of his skills into his NPC body, but he still had to adjust to his current ones, so he wasn't in a hurry to do that.

So since he wouldn't work on any other skills other than his SMITHING since he will work on the shop's orders, he decided to work on something else.

Increasing his Stats.

Hit INT was quite high for now, so he didn't have to worry about it, but he could always use more mana that came with it getting increased, but for now, he was okay with how it was. He was sure that if he upgraded his Mana Tree, it would also affect his Mana Modifier. That was deciding how much mana each of his INT is giving him. So he had to mainly on his other Stats.

His STR was the same since his curse was fully lifted. Even if he wanted to focus on the path of Magic, that didn't mean that he would leave his body being weak and not get some physical fight. He had his MARTIAL ART skill, which would give him some excellent hand-to-hand combat moves if he is out of mana or his spells don't work. No matter his skill's Rank, if he doesn't have the STR to back it up, he could damage himself instead. Same for AGI as some attacks were using the user's speed more than his pure strength.

His END was beneficial, especially since he didn't have second chances like players. Reaching 0 HP had a more significant risk than he is used with. His low SP isn't allowing him to use his Physical skills for long. Today he had to take a few breaks between his crafting sessions, and his deliveries cause his skill had consumed almost all his SP. Of course, he stopped using them when he had consumed 80-90% of his SP cause if he had spent it all, it would take more time to restore it, and he wouldn't be able to move for an hour or so.

And then there was the CHA stat, the one he was completely unfamiliar with. He had heard of the stat existing in other games, but he had never heard of it in this one, and none of the developers he knew had ever mentioned it. Although he can't be entirely sure about it, he also seemed to be the only one to have it. At some point, he thought it might be a secret NPC stat or something of his Race, but after checking Annoue's status and seeing that there wasn't CHA written there, he wasn't sure about it.

He decided that he would focus on his AGI mostly, which would greatly increase the power of his MARTIAL ART skill, following by END, which would increase the chances of his survival. Then STR, which would also increase his combat abilities but not as much as AGI and will. He would focus more on taking care of his Mana Tree to increase his mana instead of possibly increasing his INT. As for CHA, he would leave it in fate to find ways to improve it since he wasn't aware of what it was affecting and had no clue how to increase it.

And so he started making his training schedule, and it was quite simple. He would use his work on the shop to grind his SMITHING skill and increase his stats. That morning, he raised his AGI and END by overusing ACCELERATION and running around at a speed that his body wouldn't usually be able to handle. So he had to do the same to increase them all. Of course, using the ACCELERATION way again wasn't possible. Once a method worked, it wouldn't work a second time, so he had to try something else.

But since he had so much work and all he had to do was overwork himself in different ways, he had the perfect chance in his hands. And that is what he had done.