As a chill ran down my spine. I again glanced around me at the bodies of my victims and come to a realization. I absolutely do not want what just happened to them to happen to me. Taking a seat on a fallen log I sit and start to ponder.

How am I going to get out of this place alive? What can I do to make sure I survive whatever other dangers lay in the place?

Glancing at the giant piles of leech body parts scattered all over the ground. I think about what I have seen so far.

A scary as blue balls looking giant rat thing and some type of weird mutant leech creatures. I reason that if I am going to make it out of this place I am going to need to be tough and sturdy at minimum and that it is probably guaranteed at some point that I am going to face something that is able to hit me back.

So I need to able to take a hit.

I make my decision and without hesitation I divest my newly acquired attribute points to be split with 15 into strength, 20 into constitution and 15 into endurance. Looking at my status page I notice with satisfaction that my health has more than doubled. Even better than that, the increase had caused my wounds to heal slightly faster and my health had already risen back to nearly its capacity. The wounds on my arms are almost completely closed and scabbed over.

Name

Jax Hills

Level

12

Health

331/340

Strength

27

Constitution

34

Endurance

26

Dexterity

12

Intelligence

12

Wisdom

15

Charisma

12

Perception

15

Luck

20

Easy mode! Suddenly and with no warning I felt a pain like I could not describe. It was like my insides and skin where on fire! Like every cell in my body was igniting. I doubled over off the log and fell on the ground in agony. What the hell? I could do nothing but writhe on the ground in my torment. I had never felt anything like this before. I wondered fleetingly if this is what it would feel like to burn up in the atmosphere, fall into a volcano or get electrocuted to death.

After what seemed like an eternity, the pain finally started to fade. I slowly struggle back onto the log I had been sitting on before. What was that? I had no sure answers, but I figured it had to do with my sudden attribute increases. I did more than just double in strength and endurance. Looking at my arms they do seem like they are significantly larger and sturdier than before. I rested on my seat feeling pretty self-satisfied with the not so subtle transformation of my body.

Super Jax is in the house.

I try to reign in my enthusiasm. After all, I still have no idea where I am and what else might be lurking around. Looking back at the bits and pieces of the leech bodies I have to admit that I am kind of surprised that I gained so much experience and levels off them. They honestly where not that difficult to kill. At least with their attention elsewhere as it was. If they had all swarmed me en mass when they came out of the pond then I might of been fish food by now. Or leech food? Whatever. I won and they died. No sense in telling myself I should have died.

If I was to be honest to myself. Which I always do try to be. If I could get gains like these from killing opponents that where distracted. I would probably do it this way every time.

I think to myself, I should probably make it a goal to figure out a way to gain experience, levels and attribute points as safely as possible. After all, I have no one here to rely on but myself.