Alright! Alright! Alright!
Ladies and gentleman. Gentlemans? Gentlemens? How do you say this? Wait why am I getting grammatical errors in my mind?
What the fuck?
"Maybe? But like....WHYYYYYYY!?" The crazy voice of the goblin of the group.
If you didn't get it, it's annie.
Annie, or mousy. Whatever you want to call it. Bring me back to the world.
"I think we don't have all the information" damn, legolas look serious.
Well not serious. More like super duper focused, I feel like this is something that she pride herself on.
Usually.
She's the deadbeat of the group....damn I'm such a bastard, urgh, whatever, let's just talk and confirm my theory.
"We don't have all the information?"
I say that, knowing damn well that, duh they don't. They don't even know about the substats.
"Yeah....I feel like there is a big thing we missed" jenna look straight at me as she throw her own theory, but before I can answer balrow speak out.
"Is it wise to think?" Malfoy roll his eyes "it is always wise to think, even if we do not find the real answer. Theorizing, in moderation, is a great habit to have"
At this, balrow can't help but grumble and nod. It does sound wise.
"Fuck he sounded wise for a second? The fuck" malfoy frown at annie answer, and another fight.
EVERY FUCKING MINUTE! I swear.
Jenna seperate the fight by keeping up "but what did we missed?"
Substats.
Malfoy answer "I do not know, but maybe not only one thing. As ludger said, this system may be complex we can't underestimate it"
Yeah yeah, substats. What? You're wondering why I'm not helping them.
Why should I?
No really why should I? Wait wait, before you call me selfish. Do remember that I am. And that knowing about substats almost transformed me into some sort of primal whatever beast that didn't want to wear shoes.
So like.
I don't feel like telling them about substats is wise? I litterally needed to force the system to let me mess with my substats?
That was clearly a bad idea. Maybe I should listen to the omniscient floating window more often.
Anyway, I'm more interested about something else.
Why did no one talked about magic? Just balrow and annie for a second, but they talked like it was a status quo?
Strange.
Before anyone can keep going, I try to redirect the conversation to the answers that matter, to me at least
"What about magic?"
Jenna look at me, she blink, she widen her eyes. Her pupil are fucking dilating.
The fuck?
"MAGIC!"
"SHIT WHAT!? WHY ARE WE SCREAMING!?"
"We're not screaming annie, don't worry"
Annie look at jenna. Annir who's on all fours, in her bed, she fucking jumped up like a cat when jenna screamed.
"Sorry...I just, I think I got something, but...I'm not sure, I need some time"
Well fuck. Kill me, I saw jenna fucking worryhart scream?
Never ever would I have thought I would see that.
Told you she was cooking though. I can see shit like that.
That was fire, let's reinforce this kind of behaviour!
Putting on my best smile and biggest thumbs up, my eyes search for a direct line of contact with her own eyes. "Don't apologize Legolas, just take your time. If you figured out something it may even help"
I can barely hear the mumbled "thank you" Well now that's the jenna I know.
Why is malfoy staring at me?
"Magic?"
I blink. Then I shift on my bed and push myself in a sitting position "yeah, magic." He stop for a second before he sigh "ah right, you didn't touch your points at all"
The buzzing of annie on my right is almost distracting "I feel the plot thickening" balrow turn his head to talk to her "plot?" "Oh that's like the story?" "The story of our life?" "Uh...kinda?" "..."
Annie should stop staring she'll lose, balrow litterally won a staring contest with the sun.
Malfoy continue as he ignore the buzzing. "You can't put points in magic. Try it. You will see, your system will tell you that you cannot put any point in magic"
"What?"
What? Waiwaiwaiwait. WHAT!?
"Wait really?" Annie gave up, good move.
Malfoy shrug "yes, you can't. I did tried to invest in it as it sounded to be the most interesting stats of all, but the system put a quick stop to it. There was no explanation too."
Balrow frown "odd."
And as they buzz, talking, my mind go wild.
THEY CAN'T!?
Oh fuck it make so much sense.
It make ssoooooooo much sense.
My mind flash, show me my magic substats.
[Magic: 2
-700 mystical fear
-1000magical instinct human chasing
-300 magical instinct human slaughthering]
Fuckkkkkkk, of course.
I knew substats was what it lacked but STILL, oh fuck.
I can just predict what's going to happen.
That's obvious.
Show me my title.
[Homocidal: You're quite eager to PUMMEL your ennemies till they can't breathe! Everybody can know that! Feel that! Be assured, no one will take you for a wimpy kid!]
Noooo! Not that, just the additional benefits or whatever.
[Homocidal: provide 500 mystical fear, provide 250 magical instinct human chasing, provide 250 magical instinct human slaughthering]
Yes. This.
This.
The entire reason I had one magic when I started the tutorial.
Oh also completely forgot but the point was +200 mystical fear; +50 magical instinct human slaughthering; and +850 magical instinct human chasing.
Alright.
...wait.
+850!? WHAT THE FUCK!? THAT'S EVEN MORE THAN I THOUGHT!? SO MUCH!? WHY DID I GAINED SO MUCH INTO THIS SPECIFICALLY!? BECAUSE I WAS FIGHTING A BOAR!?
Chill.
You had a realization. Continue on.
And that's what I do.
Zoom out magic 50
[You cannot zoom out 50 times in magic]
Of course, of course.
I should have guessed.
Zoom out magic 2
[Magic: 2
-700 mystical fear
-1000 magical instinct human chasing]
Zoom out magic 3
[Magic: 2
-700 mystical fear
-1000magical instinct human chasing
-300 magical instinct human slaughthering]
Yeah alright, that was obvi-!"YOU CAN'T!"
Jenna fucking worryheart again!
Fuck, my positive reinforcement worked damn well. Annie is already jumping away, again.
Jenna mumble something, fast, she stumbles over some words but the major part of her speech make sense.
"You you cant. That's it! You can't. Use in magic, because we don't have magic, but we have a lot of body, and mind. So so so, if you put one point on body. Everything! Everything will get a tiny bit better, but in the end, everything will get touched. In our whole. There are things more important than others. So so, so it doesn't make you two times stronger. That's why! Because, it's like, someone trying to improve on everything. A generalist. Like, it's as if you had a limited amount of stats in an rpg and you just put one point everywhere each time. You won't have any strong build. You'll just be a bit better at everything, not two times stronger in everything!"
Malfoy rub his forehead.
"Apologies. But, I did not understand any of your words"
Jenna deflate a bit "ah, that's, that's fine, sorry" FUCK NO WORRYHEART DON'T LET THE MEAN SLYTHERIN STOP YOUR CHARACTER DEVLOPEMENT
Clapping my hands as hard as I can, I stop this insult to her character developement, if we're doing slice of life. We're doing it well.
"That make sense!" Annie look at me, turning like a robot "what?"
Raising a finger and pointing at jenna I keep encouraging her. Also, it does make sense.
"Yeah, it really does. The points are probably some kind of bullshit energy that boost us and reinforce us, or whatever. We don't need a concrete answer"
Sliding my feet on the ground. Yep, I'm sitting well for once.
"Just an assumption is fine." We don't have concrete details anyway.
"It makes sense if you think of it like that. When we put a point in body, our whole is improved. But our whole is so big, it barely reflect on us in real life."
"We'll need a lot of point to see any difference"
And boum, one finger snap to get attention.
"But that's the thing. Our whole, isn't made equal. Some muscles are bigger and more useful than others. And that's okay. But when we put a point in our body for example. Everything will improve of let's say, 1%"
Looking around to see if everyone is listening to me well, I stop for a second before continuing.
"But everything mean that the small not that useful things will get a 1% boost. They don't need that much! And the big useful things, will also get 1%. They deserve more!"
Jenna eyes are shining.
Yeah yeah, that's me. Ludger, professional at putting your thoughts into words everybody can understand!
Do call the traumatized firm if you ever need some help, our services are ridiculously pricey!
"That's it! That's exactly it!" She start doing gestures with her hand, pointing at me and rambling out more explanations.
Yep.
Yep.
It definetly make sense. And it fit well with my current substats theory.
This entire game.
This entire system.
It's some kind of substats contest.
I'm sure of it, my instinct are screaming at me. I can feel the game. See it. Smell it.
That just make sense.
The one with the most substats, the rarest, the best. The most harmonious, will be the strongest.
And if you want more substats?
Better become an homicidal bastard.
The system will give you magic if you do.