"Welco ho, sweetie!" Brenda greeted her son, the mont he closed the door behind him. She erged from her part of the house and looked him up and down. "How are you?"
"Great!" he responded truthfully.
"You look like it... you look really healthy. Going outside gave you a bit of colour." She nodded a few tis to herself.
John had gotten the slightest bit of a tan, but what she was noticing was certainly everything the increased Stats had done to him. It must have been just mild enough not to trigger any alarm bells with her or Gaia was preventing her from doing so.
"Hope it was fun? Did you hang out with that girl so more?" Brenda asked.
"G-girlfriend," John corrected and his mom happily clapped her hands together. "We finally got together today."
"Oh my, I’m proud of you! Just make sure you don’t take the rose-tinted glasses for granted, alright sweetie?" she walked over and gave his chin a motherly pinch. "It’s easy to fall in and out of love when you’re young, so think a lot about what you see in her, alright? And bring her over soti soon!"
"I will ask her," John promised and yawned. "Can I grab sothing from the fridge?"
"Yeah, there should be leftovers. I still cooked for two. Old habits and all that." Excited, she tapped from one foot onto the other. "Oh, I just have to tell your father about this! You go ahead and eat and play your video gas. Sounds like you earned it."
John wasn’t too sure what to make of the way this news spread so quickly from one parent to the other. Besides that, he was happy to follow his mom’s recomndation. Taking the leftovers with him, he vanished in his room.
The sll of his room was rancid, after hanging out with Rave for two days. The scattered objects all around, the accumulated dust, none of that had ever bothered him. Now he imagined Rave coming over and seeing all of it and he imdiately turned red. "I’ll have to clean this up," he thought and put the backpack down. He was vaguely aware of the bottle of hair removal in there. ’Is there a similar product for other areas?’ he wondered. He wasn’t a fan of the armpit hair or anything below the neck really. He could have been a fan of a beard, if he was capable of growing one.
Permanently removing all of that would be nice. To rub his smooth skin against Rave’s, to feel as much of her as possible, it was a fantastic ntal image and rembered sensation.
"I’ll start cleaning up my life tomorrow," he thought out loud. He had gone through enough today. Ti for video gas, food, and Youtube videos about the importance of tadpoles to the ecosystem.
While his PC was booting up, he opened his Character Sheet again. Nothing new there, just the Skill Evolution Point still lying around. What an SEP was useful for, he might as well find out right now.
Tapping the counter caused a couple of signs to appear next to a select few Skills. None of the Passive Skills were available and neither were Observe, the two I.D. Skills, Enchant or Craft. He tried Create I.D. anyway, just to see what the system would return.
’My choices are Masturbation, Possession, Sneaking and Mana Power Attack,’ he listed to himself.
Sneaking was out imdiately. He had not used it at all over the last few days and his Stat choices had not moved in the sneaky direction. This was likely going to be a dead Skill he just had lying around.
Masturbation should be out imdiately, but there was a greater than 0 chance it could upgrade into sothing that made him even better at sex. Not a pressing issue and Rave seed pretty satisfied with what he was doing to her, so he put that aside after considering it for a second. Maybe once he had his combat build more figured out. He couldn’t have sex if he was dead.
The choice really ca down to Possession and Mana Power Attack. Both were the backbone of his strategies.
Mana Power Attack certifiably sucked. Possession was pretty useful even in its current state. Problem was that he had no idea what the SEP would do exactly. Would it upgrade an aspect of the Skill or just create a better one? Would it tag on a new effect? Why was there no tooltip explaining this?
The computer was booted up now and called distractingly with the whirls of its fan. John, however, resolved not to let decision paralysis immobilize him for a week again. He would make a choice before he started gaming.
In the end, he wanted to lean towards the summoner/puppeteer angle more than he wanted a better version of an arcane bolt. Therefore, he pressed the plus next to Possession and saw what would happen.
SKILL EVOLUTION: POSSESSION
Option 1
Evolve Skill
Possession becos Body Swap, Transfer your whole conciousness into a new body.
100 MP Cost
Resets Skill Level to 1
Accept.
Option 2
Evolve Skill
Possession becos Control. Allows for Control of living things.
40 MP Activation Cost
20 MP per Minute
Resets Skill Level to 1
Option 3
Create New Skill
Create the Skill ’Artificial Spirit’ that infuses an object with a spirit made from this spell, that is loyal to you.
50 MP Activation Cost
1 MP per Minute One Spirit Max
Accept.
A choice between three options. That was pretty nice. The Gar did love his customization.
Body Swap was not only a great tool for fighting, the amount of chaos he could create in the enemy ranks would be legendary. It also effectively made him immortal as long as he swapped into younger bodies again and again. However, that was immoral as all hell and Rave had told him he wouldn’t have to worry about it if he got more powerful anyway. There also were questions that ca along with that Skill. Would his own body just die? Did his Stats get transferred over or would he have to level up again and again? What happened if an enemy resisted the Spell? Wouldn’t he effectively murder everyone who he used this on? Didn’t sound like his kind of deal. Even if he acknowledged the power of it, he did not want it.
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