My Parasite Skill System - Chapter 213

❮ Name: Skill ❯

❮ Race: Demonic Insectoid Parasite ❯

❮ Titles: [Fratricide]; Ultimate Scarecrow ❯

Yes, yes, yes?

❮ Level: 41 ❯

Hmm. And was that it? So far, nothing really new and useful, but what’s to come, written down below, I wonder?

❮ Status: ❯

❮ HP: 2420/2420 ❯

❮ MP: 354/825 ❯

❮ Vit. 41 ❯

❮ Strength 41 ❯

❮ Agility 41 ❯

❮ Intelligence 41 ❯

❮ Sense 41 ❯

❮ Fatigue: 47 ❯

And my MPs aren’t to their fullest. That figures after all this working about.

Ring!

❮ The Player has unused ‘Stats Point(s)’ stockpiled. It is recommended to use your ‘Stats Point(s).’ The statistics regarding the Player’s vitality; strength; agility; intelligence; sense must be increased for the well-realization of a good progression whilst playing the Game. ❯

And that was a first important point–I was about to grow even stronger with this only detail.

Huh? And what’s that, exactly? Let me figure that out.

It didn’t take much for me to understand:

With each level, my status, the statistics about the HPs, MPs, or the other traits of the Player’s progression–vitality, and strength, and agility, and intelligence, and sense–each go up by one point. As for the health and magical points, they simply are increased on their own.

Vitality correlated with my HPs, more or less. And Intelligence with my MPs, but again, only more or less.

Finally, about my ‘fatigue’ or tiredness, I guess it’s about my endurance, hm?

Well–much to discover for the Player.

And I could increase my status thanks to my stats points.

How much did I have of these? By each level, I would gain a total of three stats points. And I was level forty-one, after my first month of playing around.

To how much would that amount to? To a hundred and twenty-three points, heck yeah.

And these points I was supposed to distribute, however I pleased, among all the stats, hmm?

Well, well, well–I know someone who’ll have to lose our next battle, hah!

And … on second thought, yes, if it’s during battling, why not just kill him … who cares about the problems … “Hah, hah, hah, hah!” I guffawed, turning to him, smirking like the little demon I was.

I thought of going about ‘that’ right after I was done with my figuring things out.

And so, that’d have to wait.

I looked back at that Skill Tab of mine, and, with my fingers, I repeatedly tapped that tiny arrow, placed right next to the ❮ Strength 41 ❯ indicator, and took it up to 164.

❮ Status: ❯

❮ HP: 2420/2420 ❯

❮ MP: 354/825 ❯

❮ Vit. 41 ❯

❮ Strength 164 ❯

❮ Agility 41 ❯

❮ Intelligence 41 ❯

❮ Sense 41 ❯

❮ Fatigue: 47 ❯

Didn’t that look wonderful, now.

The system asked me for confirmation, again. I only had to say I confirmed it. This was valid. And the guide knew as I knew, now.

Very quickly, all around me, white–if not transparent to the naked eye–fumes of mana appeared around me. I felt a change in the atmosphere. It wasn’t the first time something like this happened.

I had witnessed it many times on other people, at this and that important turns of my journey … but so far, only once had it been acting on myself directly.

Now was the second time, I believe.

The pure, and divine (it clearly was that; it was ‘divine’) magical energy revolved around me, closed in on me, wrapped itself close on my skin, made me shuddered, and feel intensely … intense.

It felt just like those times when you have to wake up during holidays; that you are half-woken up and half-asleep … feeling both weak and strong, and good, and dependent, and craving for more–that was exactly it–and me, I wanted more~.

But it eventually came to an end when the System made it clear it was finished:

❮ All the ‘Stats Point(s)’ have been used – the Player’s ‘Status’ has been updated. ❯

Strength overflowed through me.

If, yesterday, I felt like I could punch and shatter a wall–today, I could punch and shatter a house–or even more!

I happily took the time to giggle, smiling with the System, thinking that the better part of what I needed to wrap my mind around already was good.

Breathing in and out fresh air, that Skill Tab still was hanging up there, I nodded at it, put back the good ol’ glasses on, and read it further down.

❮ Unique Skills: [Boramana’s Benediction] ❯

❮ Parasite Inherent Skills: <Dwelling procedure> <Host Copying> [Evolve] ❯

❮ Passive Skills: [Consciousness] [Mana Perception] [Hoyathu Style (Swordsmanship)] [Night Vision] [Enhanced Flair] [Kambe Style (Swordsmanship)] ❯

❮ Active Skills: <Quick Pace> <Chain Attack> <Cat Hissing> <Steel Claw> <Eagle Eye> <Spider Web> <Howl Wolf> <Blade Protection> ❯

And the rest of what was there was just about the skills.

I remembered how plenty of skills I had, at the time, and only relished the time when I’d add even more to that, hundreds, thousands, and become the King of … I don’t know … everything?

Well!–I relished and expected that time to come (very soon). (It wouldn’t, though, heh).

New skills I got were two: that ‘Kambe Style (Swordsmanship);’ I didn’t care much about this one–and the important one: ‘Blade Protection.’

❮ Active Skill: ‘Blade Protection’ – Upon using the skill, there is a 100% chance of causing ‘Drain Attack Power.’ ❯

Mm-hm, mm-hm, and?

❮ Positive Effect ‘Drain Attack Power’ – Duration: 2 seconds; Consumption MPs: 170 – Enemy’s attack power becomes your own. ❯

(Author’s note: that’s it about this skill. As you can see (or maybe not) I’ve considerately diminished and simplified the way I will present and detail the technicalities inherent to skills in general. Within the end of the first book, when first partially introducing the System and the game-like important features, I’d decided to go full charge on the details of my skills, but I’ve recently figured it was too much. Too much detail for me to handle was too damn tiresome. Also, it would just bore you, I guess, all of too many details and technicalities. Bear in mind hence that everything regarding ‘this’ shall be kept SIMPLE and ABSTRACT from today onward.)

Though, again, would you please shush, busybody mister?

–That was about it. I had received … my enlightenment!

And all of this was pretty but … yeah, goodbye, system–I took my left hand up, and by repeatedly shaking it about the Skill Interface, it gently disappeared.

Next time about, I knew what to say: ‘Hah.’

Or … do I?

I was skeptical about it. I was skeptical about most of everything. And so, after it shut down, I uttered the vocal command, “Hah,” and it reappeared again.

I interacted with it and … ‘No more Stats Points to be used!’ is what it said … meh!… couldn’t add some more strength for now.

After that, I paid attention to the outside world again:

Outside world, here, meant the empty hall of this guild.

And as empty wasn’t so empty, my attention mainly shifted towards that swordsman.

Now that I’m all set–I shall deal with you the right way … ehe.