Free Web NovelChapter 8: Evaluation Skill
"Status."
[Name: ]
[Level: 2]
[Mana: /]
[Race: Ark - Monkey]
[Class: Human]
[HP: 150/200]
[SP: 100/100]
[Defense: 8]
[Speed: 10]
[Resistance: 12]
[Agility: 10]
[Points: 200]
[Ability: Evolution]
Hmm, Mana still hasn’t changed.
If Mana is really what I think it is, that’s pretty unfortunate.
It’s something I’ll need before I run into dangerous creatures that can use it.
While checking his status, Mamadou confirmed what the System had announced.
His base stats had increased.
His Skill Points, which had dropped slightly, had also increased by one hundred, and the maximum limit had risen as well.
I can’t keep going like this.
I need to review everything I know.
First, the Pain Resistance skill.
I had a feeling that skills consumed SP, but my last battle confirmed it.
At first, my SP barely moved at all.
But the moment Pain Resistance leveled up, the skill maintained itself by consuming a large amount of points.
"I could have died back there if I hadn’t been able to ignore the pain," Mamadou sighed.
He also noticed with some irony that he had been sighing more and more frequently lately.
He brushed aside those distracting thoughts and continued his analysis.
I need to remember that the higher a skill’s level, the more points its use will consume.
When you think about it, that’s pretty logical.
Whenever I’m outside, I’ll have to use them sparingly.
Upon reaching Level 2, some of my skills leveled up as well.
Therefore, it’s reasonable to assume that I can increase a skill’s level either by using it regularly or through the boost provided by leveling up.
However, since some skills barely gained any levels, I think the points provided by the level-up bonus are either distributed among all skills or significantly reduced.
Otherwise, most of my skills would be at the same level.
"Hmmm. So far, it’s still speculation, but something tells me I’m on the right track." frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
After all, the skill most affected by the level-up was Pain Resistance, which went from Level 2 to Level 3.
It had been used extensively, and I leveled up immediately afterward.
There’s also the question of SP.
When I leveled up, I gained more.
If they only recover through leveling up, that would be a problem.
Right now, I have 150, and the maximum has increased from 100 to 200.
Since a full day hasn’t passed yet and it’s still stuck at 150, it’s difficult to make any assumptions.
Waiting a day should give me a definitive answer.
But I have no idea how skill levels are calculated.
Do they also use experience?
During his reflection, Mamadou employed a very simple method.
Whenever he could not answer a question, he set it aside and moved on.
If I summarize everything, it’s really just like a game.
I level up, my health is restored through some kind of sorcery, I gain SP, and my stats increase.
"But I still don’t know what the Human class is for."
"Is it because I was originally human?"
"Or does it have other effects that I don’t know about?"
Don’t think about it.
Don’t think about it.
However, I should test how skills work later.
Pain Resistance doesn’t seem like something worth experimenting with.
I’m not a masochist.
Making myself suffer just to see how the skill functions and how much SP it consumes would be pointless.
The alternative would be testing the two new skills the System informed me about.
I don’t know how much SP they’ll use, but testing them beforehand would be a good idea.
"With all this, the only path that will allow me to survive in this forest is leveling up."
"So I need to put myself in danger and become stronger than I am now."
All of this is for the sake of returning home.
Yes.
I have to return.
That means I need to fight.
It’s the only way to level up and gain new skills.
But something bothers me.
Isn’t my cheat ultimately useless?
Or maybe I simply haven’t understood how it works or what its activation conditions are.
I mean, I understood the general idea behind Evolution.
But if all I’m doing is leveling up, then what is the point of giving me such an ability?
I’ll think about it later.
I just lack information, I suppose.
"All of this is because of my System."
"I used to think a talking System would be annoying, but now..."
"I don’t even know what to think about this thing anymore."
It explains absolutely nothing.
I don’t feel assisted at all.
I mean, the protagonists in manhua and novels have much better Systems.
They receive information.
Meanwhile, I’m out here risking my life.
I don’t even know where I am.
I don’t know the conditions of this world.
I don’t even know my own evolutionary potential.
I’m a pioneer.
At least I learned the name of my race: Ark.
A monkey race I have never heard of before.
"I mean, as an Ark, I didn’t even know what skills I possessed."
"How was I supposed to think about using them?"
"Fangs and Claws reached Level 1 purely by chance."
And now that I think about it, there’s also the Evaluation skill.
It didn’t level up when I leveled up.
However, after repeatedly using it on new things, its level had increased.
It now displayed just a little more information.
"What if I try using it on myself again?"
[Unnamed Ark
Skills:
[Poison Resistance Level 1]
[Pain Resistance Level 3]
[Fatigue Resistance Level 1]
[Fangs Level 1]
[Claws Level 1]
[Evaluation Level 2]]
"That’s better than before."
"I suppose suffering through the flood of information from using it constantly on everything and anything has finally paid off."
Now I might actually get more detailed information about my enemies.
I just hope it doesn’t consume too much SP or vary depending on the target.
That would really suck.
