5 days has passed since I came to this world and now it's the sixth day. I went from 60 pounds to 65.8 pounds. not a bad improvement. I haven't really focused on the system yet because I was mostly focusing on getting my weight up.
Well, a new morning a new day. I woke up pretty shitty. The first thing I did was to get out of bed and brush my teeth before heading down to the kitchen and so I did. Now to make some food so I headed down to the kitchen. I started making a simple breakfast with French toast, bacon, scramble eggs and some milk. I think this should be ok for my breakfast. I know I can't eat much or it will backfire on me.
While I was prepping my mind wondered. Honestly, I'm thankful for my second life. At least right now I don't need to worry about bills and rent, kinda lucky ngl. I don't need to worry about the possible financial problems I would have right now or any family problems because I this point, I just cut them out of my life.
Food is ready, time to eat! When I finished, I washed my plate and got ready to leave. I grabbed 2 bottle of water, my phone and wallet and I covered myself up so people don't notice something is wrong with me and went out for a walk to get a idea of where I am.
Suddenly a blue popup came to view.
[Mission: Walk, Jog or Run 3 km (1.8 miles) in 1 hour.
Rewards:
+1 CON, Tenacious Title
Accept?]
Of course, I accept. Seeing this notification suddenly pop up in front of me left me very surprised, as I didn't imagine I could get quest like this. 'So it's not just the fixed missions that can give me stats also custom missions?' I thought excitedly as I started walking. Welp time to explore my new life.
Moving a body of 65 pounds was much more difficult than I imagined, especially over long distances. My body is burning like hell. My body is so weak and I forgot he never exercised in this body. You think you can walk pretty well but nope, I feel like I am dehydrated af.
I was already feeling my breath going away at 20 minutes, I was having trouble catching my breath, seeing that I had already walked 1 km, I decided to take a 5-minute break before continuing to walk and also passed by my new school. It seems like they have football, baseball and soccer field.
Even though 5 minutes seemed like a lot, I was still very tired when I resumed walking, but this time I didn't stop to rest and kept pushing myself.
When I reached 30 minutes, I decided to do a 60-second sprint and another notification popped up!
[DEX +1]
As soon as that notification came up, I felt like my body got a little lighter and the movement I was doing before to walk 6 meters, now I could move at least 9 meters in the same time without getting any more tired!
Considering my Dexterity was only 2 points, now that it went up to 3 points it was like a 50% increase from my previous total!
'It's gonna be tough to complete 3 km in an hour, but with this Dexterity point, I can do it!' I thought motivated as I continued walking.
My endurance was terrible, as I was all sweaty and very tired, but I didn't give up.
At 48 minutes, I received another notification.
At this point, I was so tired it was hard to even think, but I kept walking and tried to read the notification.
But my surprise was huge when a lot of the fatigue I was feeling started disappearing.
Or better yet, the fatigue wasn't disappearing completely, but it was like my body was yelling that it could handle more and that the fatigue that before was almost killing me, now was no longer my limit.
With that, I managed to look at the screen and was very happy with the notification.
[CON +1]
Smiling, I continued running through the neighborhood until at 59 minutes I completed the 3 km!
[Mission: Walk, Jog or Run 3 km (1.8 miles) in 1 Hour.
Rewards:
+1 CON, Tenacious Title
Completed!
Accept reward?]
As soon as the mission notification popped up for me, I couldn't even look ahead, it was like the adrenaline that was keeping me standing disappeared and my body just started falling forward onto the nearest lawn.
Not only was my body hurting, but my head was also hurting a lot, since I didn't have enough oxygen for my body. I finished both the bottle of water I had like a dying hyena.
After what seemed like an eternity breathing, I managed to open my eyes and accept the reward.
[CON +1]
[New Title Unlocked: Tenacious.]
[Perseverant: Only those who persevere to the end in a difficult task receive this title.
Effect: +10% ease when doing a task that requires a lot of effort.]
'What a useful title!' I thought excitedly as the other point in Constitution relieved some of the fatigue I was feeling.
Shaking my head to put that thought aside, for a moment I thought about what happened earlier, it seems like I can also get stat points of doing certain actions but I knew it would be useless to test with how tired I was, so I just got up from the grass I was lying on and walked around a the neighborhood. Stopped by a connivance store to get some drink and a quick snack.
Went inside and got what I needed, and the clerk started to talk to me. I was nervous for some reason, so I calmed myself down.
I tried to speak normally, without using the submissive tone of this world's Liam, or my old aggressive way of speaking.
If I were to rely on the experience of this world's Noah to have this conversation, I could hardly say more than three words, but fortunately, I had some friends at school in my past life.
The problem is that my friends were all troubled, just like I was, so our way of talking was much more aggressive than normal people are used to, like us cursing at each other, speaking angrily, or things like that.
It was really good for us since we could vent our anger about other things on each other, but without offending anyone, since no one there cared.
"Hey buddy, are you good. You looked like you are dying?" The clerked asked.
"Yeah, just moved here from Texas and decided to get my bearings around the new area" I said trying to pretend my nonchalance.
"Texas huh? how are you feeling here in Springfield, I hope it isn't bad" Clerked said.
"Yeah it's not bad, not much difference between the place, still good people to talk to and pretty good place to work out." I said
"That's good, alot more area to explore also that would be $14.88" Clerk said.
"Thank you and I will explore more. Here you go" I said and gives the money.
"Alright you good to go and have a nice day" Clerk replied.
"Thank you Enjoy the rest of your day at work" I replied as I left the store.
[CHA +1]
Seeing this notification suddenly pop up in front of me left me very surprised, as I didn't imagine I could raise my stats like this. Wait, the time I pushed myself I've gotten DEX +1 right. I was thinking depending what actions I do I get stat points.
'So it's not just the missions that can give me stats?' I thought excitedly as I started walking back home. 'I just got home and I better go take a bath soon.' I thought in a hurry as I ran to the bathroom.
Arriving in the bathroom, I was surprised.
In the mirror's reflection, even though I couldn't exactly identify how much, but I felt like I was a little slimmer and a little more handsome... but how?
Until I remembered!
Since I saw my reflection before, I had gained another 1 point in Charisma and 2 points in Constitution, which apparently made me a little more pleasing to the eyes. Wait if I eat a lot would I get skills. I kind of want to test that out but first it's bath time.
When I finished showering and looked at myself in the mirror, I was a little disappointed since it would take a long time to improve my appearance the way I was.
Looking at my long black hair, that was something that needed to change urgently.
I hated long hair on a man, especially like Liam's hair was, completely dry and poorly maintained, which gave an even dirtier impression to him who already didn't have a good appearance.
So using scissors that were on the counter, I started cutting my own hair.
Since my old man never gave me a dollar to get a haircut, I had to learn how to cut my own hair by myself.
At first, my hair looked like crap, and the old man would laugh at me because of it, but over time I got good at it.
[Skill Acquired: Hair Cutting Lv 1 (+25 previous Proficiency Levels.)]
Seeing that notification, I was surprised, both for getting a new skill so easily, and for getting this skill already at level 26 for knowing how to do it in my previous life!
[Hair Cutting Lv 26:
When cutting someone's hair, the cut has +26% chance to please whoever looks at it.]
Seeing the skill description, I got even more excited as I cut the hair, until I finally finished.
What used to be long and dry hair, was now much shorter and messier, which was exactly my style in my old world.
Luckily the bathroom also had a razor blade, which the old Liam used to trim the little beard he had, which I used to trim the little beard that was growing on me, trim the base of my toe hair, and with what was left of the blade now with less cutting ability, I used it to run through my hair, leaving it even messier, but much more stylish.
[Buff Acquired: Clean Cut]
[Clean Cut:
Effect: When Clean Cut is activated, the user receives a +1 CHA bonus.
Duration: 71:59 Hours.]
Looking at my reflection, I was quite satisfied, the CHA buff was really deserved with how much better I looked.
Even though this buff only lasted for 3 days, I wouldn't have a problem touching it up every day, since with the appearance I had, any extra point in CHA helped.
But thinking about how I got the Hair Cutting skill now, but hadn't received a Running skill, made me realize that maybe the technique I used to do something influenced it, so as soon as I left the bathroom I turned on the computer and searched for videos explaining the correct running techniques.
To my happiness, I was right!
[New Skill Acquired!]
[Walking Lv 1: When walking with the intention of exercising, you know which techniques to use and how to maintain the best posture possible to train the muscles.
Effect: When walking, your muscles develop 1% faster and your body gets tired 1% slower.]
With this new skill of mine, I was more confident in losing weight even faster.
And knowing how I could learn new skills, countless possibilities began to emerge in my mind of how I could develop in this new life.
Especially when remembering how small the video site of this world was currently compared to the YouTube of my previous life.
What they called ViewTube in this world, was practically YouTube a few years after it was launched, something with few people accessing and only with a niche audience, something that could benefit me with my knowledge.
Knowing the challenge it would be to interact with these new people, I was a little worried, but thinking that none of this would be worse than interacting with my family, I relaxed and became more confident.
I just took one last look at my Status screen to gain more confidence.
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| Character Status |
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| Name: Liam Tarrant
| Title: Tenacious
| Level: 01
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| HP: 50/50
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| Weight: 60 pounds -> 66 pounds
| Strength (STR): 4
| Dexterity (DEX): 2 -> 3
| Constitution (CON): 3 -> 5
| Intelligence (INT): 15
| Wisdom (WIS): 15
| Charisma (CHA): 3 -> 5 (4 + 1)
| Agility (AGI): 2
| Luck (LUK): ??
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| Skills:
| (Hair Cutting Lv 24), (Walking Lv 1).
| -----------------------
| Buffs:
| (Clean Cut)
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But before leaving, I was surprised to see an unexpected change in my HP!
From what I remember, my HP before was only 30 points, now it went up to 50!
Seeing a relationship, I quickly understood, as my constitution increased from 3 points to 5, then my HP is 10x my constitution, which really makes some sense, since it's like my body is healthier and can deal much better with injuries.
With the change in my HP, I feel like I'm going in the right direction.
(Author note: even though youtube is called viewtube in this world, I'll still be calling it and writing it as youtube.)