Chapter four D.

"Well shit." I said out loud. "That's cool. Not too bad if I do say so myself." I said as if this was what I had intended from the start. I pulled up my stats and looked at how many points I had just accumulated from leveling. 76 attribute points, 19 ability points, 19 skill points, and 19 spell points.

"How to grow. I hated in books when a character did not use their points. Who waits to use level upgrades? Though I can see part of the reason now. I don't really know what would be good, though I know I'm overpowered in one way so might as well capitalize on that. Min max maybe. No..."

As I reviewed my options, I was hoping for a list I could choose from, but it looked like I was going to have no luck on that front. I had a few options, but I had not done enough yet to create good options. I was going to have to find abilities and figure out some more skills before I could use those points. I was not going to use my points to level tailoring, no matter how useful it was.

I could use the spell points I had, but as I reviewed the spells, I had created and learned a problem presented itself. Well, not so much a problem but more a general lack of need to really use the points yet. I was not bottlenecked anywhere. Most of the spells I had only cast a few times, and if the shuriken spell was an indication of leveling speed, it would be better to hold those points for later.

Lastly, there were books and games that I played that required the person leveling to have the energy on hand to level. Like calories, and if you did not have enough, you could starve to death during the leveling process. Better to take things slow, as it is my first day in this world.

I pulled up my status.

Individual Statistical Analyses.

Name: Eric Grayson.

Race: Human.

Level: 19. Experience to next level; three hundred out of one thousand.

Health: 100 percent.

Mana capacity: 100.

Mana regeneration: Error…Max [11.5 mana per second.]

Attributes: 4 per level. 76/76

Strength: 10.

Body: 10.

Speed: 10.

Dexterity: 10.

Mana capacity: 10.

Mana regeneration: 10.

Charisma: 10.

Affinities:

Arcane mana manipulation: 100 percent.

Earth: 100 percent.

Fire: 100 percent.

Air: 50 percent.

Water: 50 percent.

Life: 85 percent.

Death: 15 percent.

Light: 85 percent.

Shadow: 75 percent.

Space-time: 25 percent.

Summoning: 25 percent.

Abilities: 1 per level. 19/19.

Skills: 1 per level. 19/19.

Junk skills: [Breathing, walking, blinking, hand waving]

Spells: 1 per level. 19/19.

Arcane mana manipulation:

Fuse: Base cost: .1 mana per square inch of material to be atomically bonded.

Fire:

Candle flame: base cost: Error… 0.1 mana per minute. Metal shaping: Base cost: Error… 10 mana per second.

Earth:

Stone spike: Base cost: Error… .1 mana per inch of spike. Level 1. Collect element: Base cost: N/A. Collect desired element from surrounding area. Level 1. Fertilize soil: Base cost: .1 mana per cubic foot of fertilized soil.

Air:

Shuriken wrath: Base cost: 42.5 mana. Level 1,2 Yarn spinning: Base cost: .1 mana per second of spinning, level one. Weave: Base cost: 5 mana per 10 seconds of weaving. Level one.

Water:

Nutritious water: Base cost: 5 mana per oz of species-specific nutritious water.

Life:

Analyze body: base cost: 3 mana a second. Level 1. Focused healing: Base cost: 7.5 mana per second. Level 1. Mass healing: Base cost: 12 mana per second, area a ten-yard radius. Manipulate plant: Base cost: 4.5 mana per second of movement. Rapid growth: Base cost: .1> <100 mana per second of growth depending on plant or animal complexity. Invigorate: Base cost: 15 mana to boost usable cellular energy in target.

Space-time:

Internal Dimensional Expansion: Base cost: 300 mana per cubic inch of extradimensional storage.

I decided to try adding just one point to see what would happen. I placed one point into the body stat and waited. A few seconds passed with nothing. Then a warm tingle started at my toes and washed up through my body. It was itchy and hot, and I could feel my cells sort of shudder. It lasted maybe five minutes, then subsided. I was noticeably hungrier afterwards.

I was going to have to find something to eat soon. Then I thought about it, nutritious water. It made a liquid that was nutritious for multiple species of both plants and animals.

I reached out with my mana and cast the spell into my cupped hands. The spell only cost five mana per oz, so a full eight oz glass size cost forty mana. When I cast the spell, I thought about making a sweet nutritious apple juice that could sustain me.

What I got was a runny sort of apple-flavored gelatin. It was sweet and drinkable. Well, slurpable. I cast the spell four more times until I felt full. It wasn't a great feeling, but it did give me that just ate something healthy, energy buzz.

I decided to allocate some more points. Now I was feeling pretty good just having drunk my fill. The one-point didn't seem like much. So, I would put five points into each of the physical stats. Strength, body, speed, and dexterity. I added the points and felt fine. Then the warm tingling came, followed by a wave of cramping.

I blacked out.