Chapter 46
His stats appeared before him. First of all, he checked the Enhanced Senses skill.
Enhanced Senses: Rank I (100%) (Upgrades: 0 of 3) (on)
He focused on the rank of the skill, and a piece of additional information emerged.
A raise to the Rank is avaible.
Requirements: Mind 1
Cost: 1 SP
Raise to Rank II: Y/N
So he could raise Enhanced Seo Rank II right now since he had one skill point at his disposal and his Mind attribute was 1. However, he decided not to do it right now. He first wao cheething else.
He shifted his gaze to another line in his stats to see how much mana he currently had.
MP: 1,390
The st time he checked his mana, he’d had 1,450 MP, which he’d collected during his mana hunt. Over the course of the st hour or so, he’d ed 60 MP, expl the city and fighting mutants emerging from the replication pods in the building. The st time he’d measured the mana ption during one hour of active physical activity, he found that he used up a total of 45 MP. So he just received another firmation that the more active he was, both physically aally, the greater the amount of mana his body burhrough.
He then reviewed the current status of his abilities and skills. Cws currently was at 78%, Enhanced Agility and Enhanced Intellige 92% and 71% respectively. It wouldn’t be long before these skills reached 100% too. The new ability, Bded Tentacles, was o be seen in his character sheet, however. It was uandable. He recalled the note from the quest description stating that Bded Tentacles would be ied into the Geic Development Interface upo pletion.
To ensure everything was in order, he accessed the quest menu. The menu, which stored records of all his quests, both active and pleted, appeared in his mind. With no active quests at the moment, the list dispyed only the two quests he had finished earlier. He focused on the one listed at the top.
Type: Mutation Research
Objective: Analyze replication pods with three different types of mutants.
Reward: Bded Tentacles (Received)
Status: pleted
With a thought, Jake then closed his character sheet and switched to the Geic Development Interface, which was basically a skill store. A list of abilities and skills avaible for purchase materialized in his mind.
Geic Development Interface
Evolution Stage 1: “Primordial Form”
Abilities: 1 of 4
Skills: 3 of 7
Ability: Smashfists
Requirements: Body 2
Cost: 2,000 MP
Ability: Swords
Requirements: Body 3
Cost: 2,000 MP
Ability: Bded Tentacles
Requirements: Body 2, Magick 1
Cost: 3,000 MP
Skill: Enharength
Requirements: Body 5
Cost: 3,000 MP
Skill: Enhanced Reflexes
Requirements: Body 5, Mind 3
Cost: 3,000 MP
Skill: Feral Instincts
Requirements: Mind 5, Magick 3
Cost: 4,000 MP
Skill: Enhanced Regeion
Requirements: Body 7, Magick 5, Mind 3
Cost: 5,000 MP
Skill: Enhanced Senses
Requirements: None
Cost: Already Owned
Skill: Enhanced Agility
Requirements: None
Cost: Already Owned
Skill: Enhanced Intelligence
Requirements: None
Cost: Already Owned
Ability: Cws
Requirements: Body 1
Cost: Already Owned
Jake sed through the list. Abilities were listed first, followed by skills. Those abilities and skills he already possessed were pced at the bottom of the list. When he became a mutant, he’d been given three skills—Enhanced Senses, Enhanced Agility, and Enhanced Intelligence. Later on, he’d acquired the Cws ability. The Bded Tentacles ability had been added to the store, joining the other abilities iop half of the list. Jake was kind of disappointed. He’d hoped he would get the ability for free, but as it turned out, he had to buy it for MP just like any other. Still, if he hadn’t pleted the mutation research quest, this ability wouldn’t have bee avaible for purchase at all.
He focused on the ability to get additional information about it.
Ability: Bded Tentacles
Description: The mutant grow tentacles ending in double-edged bdes from their back. The tentacles st for a brief period before detag from the mutant’s body.
Upgrades: 0 of 3 (on)
Requirements: Body 2, Magick 1
Cost: 3,000 MP
Jake wao acquire the ability, but he couldn’t do it at the moment. It was way too expensive for him right now. He wished he knew a more effit way of acquiring mana ables instead of simply sging for them. So far, he had learned about two types of quests with different objectives—Hunt and Mutation Research. The reward for the former oints for his attributes as well as free upgrades to his skills and abilities. The reward for the tter was new skills and abilities. He wondered if there were quest types that offered mana rewards. He hoped such quests existed.
He was also aware that before he could acquire Bded Tentacles, he would o increase Magick to 1. Up to this moment, he hadn't ied a single skill point into that attribute because he hadn’t yet found a pelling reason to do so. He wasn’t even sure about the advantages or effects of this attribute on him.
After giving the matter some thought, Jake decided that raising Enhanced Seo Rank II would have to wait a little longer. He po do so after leveling up again and obtaining another SP. Choosing to i in Magistead, he did a final review of his current stats.
Name: Jake Turner
Race: Ex-Human Morphus
Evolution Stage 1: “Primordial Form”
Level: 4
HP: 100%
XP: 30/625
SP: 0
MP: 1,390
Body: 3
Mind: 1
Magick: 1
Cws: Rank I (78%) (on)
Enhanced Senses: Rank I (100%) (on)
Enhanced Agility: Rank I (92%) (on)
Enhanced Intelligence: Rank I (71%) (on)
After that, Jake opened his eyes, and all the information vanished. He surveyed the room, which was littered with the remnants of the replication pods and the bodies of the mutants he had sin. Having nothio do in the building, he walked across the slippery floor, now coated in the pod liquid that had spread everywhere. A few seds ter, he exited the building and resumed his journey.
