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Chapter 6
🕑 Added 2025-02-22 17:08:19 +0000 UTCA day that I should have spent dealing with customers and cursing Karens suddenly became the day I finally moved from my small, nearly falling-apart house to something livable, the pure excitement was palpable.
After some thinking, I realized that living under the same roof as other mutants was the best way for me to learn how to use my powers, and to avoid mutant haters from being able to reach me and kill me, sure there are mind rapers under the same roof, but after a small talk with Jean, I was able to convince her to train me to protect my mind from mind reading whenever she was free, which got me another level in persuasion.
There weren't many things I got to the mansion, the few things of value I had were already in my backpack or inventory, and the other things either weren't worth much or weren't exactly mine per so, in the end, I simply took some clothes and put them in another bigger backpack and was done.
The flight back to the mansion felt even faster than the first one, maybe because I was excited, but when I arrived I was led to a room where I would live with another guy so that I could leave my clothes and go explore the mansion.
Taking a sigh of relief when I was finally left alone I finally let the mask crumble the previous friendliness and bravery visible on my face only left behind worry and fear, of what my life had become in just a day, of the choices I had made that would most likely forever change my life and my future, to what living here could lead to.
By the time I had finally gotten my emotions under control, I reopened my eyes and took a look at the notification I had ignored.
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New Skills: Acting Lv.1(Cha) (Improves overall control of facial muscles and credibility of the lies you tell)
Acting Lv.1=>6
Cha 3=>4
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I get up from the bed I had laid on and check the time, seeing it being around 6 o'clock, but for some reason, I wasn't either hungry or physically tired.
' Well, in most games there is no hunger bar, and considering how my SP has never even got and it represents my physical stamina this would explain it, unless I receive a debuff for a prolonged time without food or sleep can't I theoretically go without sleep and food for however long I want? Yeah no, I still like eating and sleeping, and sleeping also rewards me with a sick bug that helps with skill and stats growth so I think I will continue living as a human for now.'
Changing for something easier to move in, I headed outside my body needing to move like never before, maybe it had been the stress or the fact that now didn't have to worry about food and the like, but my body felt like moving, a lot, and I still had to discover a way to train most of my physical stats.
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New Quest
Training Montage
Objective: Discover a way to train all of your stats 4/8
Bonus Objective: before midnight
Reward: 100 XP, 10$
Bonus Reward: 1 PP
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Remembering the way from when we arrived, I reached the back of the mansion where the enormous grass field I had seen when I had arrived was.
Few people were still outside, and most of them were heading inside the mansion, most likely to have dinner so, taking the chance, I headed for a bit more secluded part of the field and started my experiments.
'Physical strength, lifting capabilities, striking potential, and speed or maybe more like explosive strength, this was what defined strength the first time I saw it, I don't have anything to lift, nor do I know how to punch things, guess running it is.'
Taking a few seconds to stretch even netted me a new skill called Yoga that fell under the Dex stat and improves the effect given from every point I gain in Dex when related to flexibility.
My running form was everything but elegant, but it worked, and until my running pace was slower than my stamina consumption I could theoretically run forever, but my regen was too low, I would have to walk for it to be able to cover the consumption.
An hour later I had gotten even more than I had wished for and discovered that I would start feeling tired when my stamina went below half.
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New Skills: Running Lv.1(Dex) (Improves your running form thus reducing stamina consumption and running speed), Physical Form Lv.1 (Str) (Improves the physical strength, and the effect that is gained from every point in strength)
Running Lv1=>3
Physical Form Lv.1=>2
Str 1=>2
Dex 2=>4
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The effect of physical form and Yoga made me wonder if there were any other skills like the two, for now, I have to focus on gaining a skill for Vit, End, and Per.
'Vit and End are very similar, one decided how much I can take before dying, and the other reduced the amount of damage I have to take to even get damaged, so maybe getting hit can help to make them grow?'
My head turned towards the nearest tree, which started shaking because of the wind.
' Sorry tree.'
And then started hitting it, for some reason the pain I thought would have come didn't, nor the expected damage from punching a tree with bare hands, the only thing to prove that I had hit the tree was the reduction in HP.
' At least this way I won't have to worry about dirting clothes with blood.'
Punch after punch, the bark of the tree continued creating splinters, but no matter what I wasn't strong enough to leave any kind of mark on it, but that wasn't my objective.
After 30 minutes of hitting the damn thing, I got angry and hit the thing with all my strength, hitting something for 30 minutes and not getting any reward gets boring and annoying pretty fast.
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-4.95 HP
New Skill: Blunt Damage Reduction Lv.1 (End/Vit) (Resistance Skills are special skills that involve two stat at the same time, improve resistance against blunt damage reducing damage by (Sk Lv.)%)
PDR Lv.1=>2
+1 Vit
+1 End
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" Fucking finally," I said while sitting on the ground, my hand redder than before but not reporting any kind of damage.
" What are you doing?" A voice asked from behind me, and I recognized that voice.
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Vocal recognition Lv.1 (Per) (Improves your ability to recognize voices and the emotions behind their voice)
Training Montage quest Completed
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I turned and saw Rogue, in all her gothness, of all people it had to be her, my only weakness.
" I have a really good explanation about all of this."
" I am listening," She said with a smile on her face.
"... I was training?"
" By punching a tree?"
" The voices told me to do it."
Ok, maybe that didn't sound that good.
"... I think I will erase that last part ok?" Rogue said trying to stop herself from laughing but failing miserably.
" Thank you, anything I can do for you?"
" You can come to have dinner, Ororo was worried since she didn't see you around."
" Yeah, dinner of course," I said while getting up and cleaning my clothes.
She didn't wait for me and headed back inside the previous curiosity she had in her eyes was now gone.
Seeing her moving away I sighed in disappointment ' Very smooth idiot, I am my very own kind of idiot.'
But then she stopped and looked back at me.
"Are you coming or what?"
I sighed and followed behind her.
