Chapter 6: Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Stats and Growth

 

Questions kept popping up in Trint’s head when considering his long-term goals. Did he want to be a mage type and focus on his Mind for Mana use? Or focus on the sword and other Body stats?  Knowing his starting skills were going to be replaced, he supposed it didn’t matter for now.

From his estimations, not many would die in i11. The System didn’t seem to be killing people off so early. If most people teamed up then these monsters, even the bosses, would be extremely easy. He wondered if the Instances scaled in difficulty based on the group size that entered.

Trint also thought about people who were fine with robbing and killing. When already bad people gained dominating power and with post-apocalyptic scenarios, the powerful wouldn’t hesitate to exploit the weak. There would likely be a lot of abuse of power and unnecessary killing. Trint wondered if his sense of justice and desire to protecting the innocent would get him into trouble at some point.

Trint was not looking forward to seeing that sort of evil. He always possessed a strong sense of justice and the very idea of things like slavery or abuse of the weak made his skin crawl and his blood boil. If he had the power and ability, he knew he would not be able to walk away in the face of such clear evil and abuse of power. But he had to also focus on getting to his family.

No doubt things were going to get ugly, but he would not be able to turn a blind eye. So, he began preparing himself to get strong enough to have the power to stop the ugly side of the Iterations when he could. However, he had no delusions of grandeur. He knew he was a small fish in a big ocean. Or a frog in a well, unaware how big the world really is. For now, he needed to be ready for the fighting to come.

After leveling up a few times, Pneuma explained that holding on to unassigned stat points could backfire, forcing him to assign points in a moment of emergency if someone tried to attack him. Instances might be easy, but others were leveling too and the dark side of the new world was likely to show itself sooner rather than later.

Pneuma pulled up the System view before assigning the available points:

 

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