DISCLAIR: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the beautiful bastard Ryugii. This has been pulled from his Spacebattle publishnt. Anyway on with the show...errr read.
CH 1: New Ga
"Hey, mom?" I said, joining my mother in the kitchen as she watched the sun set outside the window.
"Hm?" My mother, Isabella, turned towards slightly, lifting an eyebrow as she made the sound in the back of her throat. "What is it, sweetie?"
"I, uh" I scratched my cheek as I frowned slightly. "Well, I guess I'm just unsure about sothing and I figured you'd know?"
"Oh?"
"Is itMom, which would you say is more important, Intelligence or Wisdom?"
My mom put down the dish she'd been washing, turning to face fully with her head tilted to the side.
"I'm not sure I understand the question?" She said questioningly. "Where'd this co from?"
"Well," I said, wondering about that a bit myself, if for different reasons. "I was playing a ga, I guess. You know, an RPG, right? And it had the usual stats: Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Luck. And I never thought about it until a few days ago, but its like, all the others are obviously different, right? I wondered why Intelligence and Wisdom seem to be the exception and I started thinking about whether they were different in real life, too, and how."
Mom seed to ponder that for a minute.
"Well, I'd say that it's ideal to have both intelligence and Wisdom," She said. "Just how it's better to be strong and fast and tough and lucky, rather than just one in particular, but that's very rarely possible, is it? If I had to say which was most importantI suppose I'd say Wisdom."
"Why?" I asked.
"WellIf I was to differentiate between Intelligence and Wisdom, I'd say that the forr was power and the latter the awareness of how to use that power. I'd say that Wisdom was the ability to make good choices and Intelligence a way to give you more choices. If you're smart and have a thousand ideas, wisdom would tell you which was the best choice to make and what the long term effects would be."
I nodded at her seriously.
"Then it would be better for to beco wise then beco smart, right?" I asked, just to double check.
Mom put a hand to my cheek and smiled.
"Oh, Jaune. You're still young," She said. "You have ti enough to beco whatever you want."
"Thanks, mom," I said, smiling honestly. "ThenI promise I'll beco soone great. And, uh, why don't I handle the dishes?"
At that, her eyebrows went up again before she chuckled and nodded.
"I'll leave it to you then." She said, patting my cheek again as she turned away. I stared after her for a mont.
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Isabella Arc
I sighed and turned to the dishes, washing them one by one.
A skill has been created through a special action! Continuously washing dishes has created the skill 'Dish Washing' to quickly clean dishes!
I just sort ofstared at the blue box that appeared before my eyes for a mont and then exhaled slowly, shaking my head.
So even stuff like this
How do I explain this? I can't, honestly, which is my I don't. I didn't even tell my mom or dad. But if I had to, I guess I could describe this as my special ability. I haven't had it for very longjust a week, reallybutwell, you see, the ga I'd told my mom about, that made wonder about all this? Well
"Status," I muttered.
Na: Jaune Arc
Class: The Gar
Level: LV2
HP: 100/100
MP: 50/50
STR: 10
VIT: 10
DEX: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
POINTS: 5
MONEY: 100 Lien
This window appeared in front of at the sound of my voice. I'd confird I was the only one who could see it by opening it repeatedly in a crowd and not drawing any attention. Initially, I'd wondered if I was just seeing things, butwell, I had an Inventory, too, and I could literally store stuff inside of it and they'd, well, vanish until I could take them out. Hell, I could store more stuff in there then I could physically carry. I could even go on quests and stuff, though most of them were stuff like 'Set the table,' 'Take out the trash,' and 'Go get groceries.' Despite that, they gave experience points and yesterday I'd even leveled up and gotten points. Given the circumstances, I was willing to operate under the assumption that would work like in a ga, too.
Which had led to the question I'd asked my mom. My stats wereaverage. Perfectly soI wasn't good or bad at anything, for soone of my level, but I had figured out pretty quickly that I was low leveled. Most of the people in my class had levels like three or four, but I'd started at level one with completely normal stats. It had been kind of depressing to have that thrown in my face, especially since I'd gotten the ability sothing like a day after I'd failed to get into Signal. Again. And it had hurt. The knowledge, the reminder, the proof right before my eyes hamring in what I already knewthat I was a
I'd gone to sleep, woken up, and I'd been like this, which had mainly enabled to see for myself how weak I was.
But now, if I had this ability, if it worked how I thought it did, then maybe I could change that. I was sure of it, nowI could do things no one else could do. I had five points right now and I could put them anywhere I wanted. I could make myself stronger, faster, or anything else. Given the raw potential held in these little numbers on my, well, character sheet, it was only a matter of choosing properly to gain strength.
I had no idea how to do that. I'd considered all my options. I wasn't sure exactly how the numbers worked, but I could beco the strongest in my class in a snap of my fingers by putting them in strength or the fastest by placing them in dexterity. But which was most important? Being strong? Fast? Tough? I'd considered it but after sleeping on it, I realized I just didn't know. What's the best choice? Where do I even start?
And then I realized, if I didn't know that, wouldn't making myself smarter and wiser be the best choice? And if Wisdom is the ability to make good choices, then
I pressed the arrow beside Wisdom five tis and raised it to fifteen. Taking a deep breath, I nodded and closed the window.
"I'm done with the dishes, mom!" I shouted. "I'm going out for a bit!"
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I organized my thoughts, putting what I already knew in context. I was, essentially, a video ga character. I could grow stronger by leveling upwhether that was my own, personal level or the levels of my skills. From what I'd seen, doing one didn't affect the other, so I had to improve them separately. I already knew how to do both, I'd just been uncertain as to how to go about it.
Improving my skills was as simple as using them. That in mind, I moved into the forest, took my sword out of my Inventory, and started whacking trees while I was busy thinking. I'd done this a little lately, once I'd developed my 'Sword Mastery' skill after practicing for a while. I'd figured out quickly that my skills could be either active or passive, but the thod of improvent was the sa. What I needed to do then was focus on two things: Leveling up important skills and finding new skills that would be useful.
I'd gotten 'Power Strike' around the sa ti I'd gotten 'Sword Mastery.' I could use the forr about fifteen tis before I ran out of mp, after which it took about an hour to regain it. It had taken about two hours to increase it to level two and longer to raise it to level three, entirely because of how long it took to regain my mp. In comparison, I'd been able to raise my Sword Mastery to level five in a single day because I didn't need mp to use it. From that I could assu that passive abilities were easier to improve then active ones, as well as easier to usebut on the other hand, they were weaker individually and active skills got both stronger and cheaper as they grew more powerful. I needed to get many passive abilities that worked well together but also train my active abilities.
On the other hand, raising my own level was just as important, because it gave points to improve my stats. Unfortunately, there were only a few ways to do thatdoing quests was the only big one I'd done, though I could get a small bit of experience by studying and working out. But if I thought of the world as a ga then presumably I could also do it by killing monsters and defeating enemies. Generally, quests gave more experience than individual monsters in return for taking more ti and being more complicated. That all depended on the difficulty; I assud that taking out the trash gave less experience then killing a Grimm would.
If I could do it, finding an area full of Grimm and killing them all would probably be the faster way to level up and places like that were easy to find. I could just leave the city boundaries and I'd find them eventually, though the forests close to the residential district were safe. ButI was still only level two and there was no way of knowing what I'd find. Getting stronger first was probably the wiser choice, as was sticking to quests for now.
Thencould I manufacture quests? If I could get five hundred experience from just doing things like doing chores for my mom, could I volunteer for tasks and do things around the neighborhood? Or did soone have to explicitly ask before I could do sothing? I'd have to find out. Even if I couldn't, there had to be a fair number of people who needed stuff done around town.
Then, that's where I should start, at least in terms of leveling myself up. For my skillsI should probably make a schedule.
Besides Power Strike and Sword Mastery, I didn't have many other skills. I'd gotten 'Observe' while watching the higher-level people I'd seen around town and the fights I occasionally saw. And, of course, I'd gotten 'Dish Washing' just a while ago, but I think I could exclude that from my list of 'Important skills to grind.'
Observe, however, seed like the type of thing that could be extraordinarily useful. Even at level one, it showed a lot about whatever I used it on. It was an active skill, butit didn't seem to drain mp. Then, if I were to use it on every person I tno, on everything I sawI should be able to improve it at a decent rate, right? Did the level or value of the object matter? If it did, I could use it in stores and stuff, and places like that would also have lots of stuff to use it on. A library might be a good place to use it, too, if every single book counted. I could use that whenever I was in the city and I could spend a few hours wandering every day, maybe doing so quests in the process. My Sword Mastery and Power Strike I could train later one, like I was doing now. That would serve to level my existing abilities. As for acquiring new ones
Dish Washing served as a reminder of how broad 'Skills' could be. If I could get a skill by doing chores, what else would count? Sword Mastery implied that I could get a similar ability with other weapons. It might be more efficient to stick with swords for now, at least in terms of lee, since I'd already put so work into itbut it might be smart to get a longer-range option at so point and maybe see if my hands counted as weapons, just in case. In fact, was there a Shield Mastery? I hadn't gotten one just by wearing a shield, but then I hadn't gotten Sword Mastery until I started using my sword. There wasn't anything nearby to attack , butwould it count if I bashed sothing with my shield? I'd bring try it out in a bit.
Besides that, there were a bunch of things that probably counted. Sneaking around probably counted and if I wanted to reach the Grimm later, I'd need to get past the border guard, to say nothing of any of the other reasons I might need to hide. Sothing to help run away, just in case. Ways to defend myself, though my shield might count if that worked, and I could try my armor. I'd focus on them for now and see what other skills I discovered and what ca to . I'd hopefully have so ti before anything dangerous happened.
But what should I focus on, one I leveled up?
I closed my eyes and frowned. If I was right, thenit should get harder to level up as ti went on, so early on I should focus on things I didn't want to wait for. My mom was completely rightI had ti to beco whatever I wanted. I could beco strong and fast and tough and anything else. But while I could do it easily, I should focus on
"Intelligence and Wisdom, huh?" I muttered before nodding to myself. If I was smart and wise, I could figure out how to get stronger or co up with solutions to things I couldn't face with strength alone. I could make up for weakness with intelligence, but could I make up for being stupid by being strong? Maybe, but it'd probably be harder and I might regret it.
"It's a plan, then," I said, smiling to myself as I drew my shield out of my inventory. "Just watch I'm gonna be great soday."
I then proceeded to start my path to greatness by repeatedly whacking a tree with a blunt object.
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