I stood looking over the handrail of the ship I was on. It was a deep-sea fishing vessel and it smelled like one. No one on board understood English so after giving me a blanket they left me alone. I was cold and wet but that was alright. I needed to find out more about the world I was in. This ship had technology on it that was old, perhaps thirty years old. I took a deep breath and felt the heave of the ship in the choppy waves. It was slight, but I could feel it. It felt good. As I stood enjoying the sway, there was an icon flashing on the lower right.

I was putting off reading the message for no reason. I then decided to focus on the System message. I was level 6. I had PowerPoints. 200 points that I could spend on my Character Sheet. I guess on me now. I looked over my sheet.

Wilbur Trent

Human Level 1

Strength -2 | Level 1 Super Strength

Agility -2 | Level 1 Super Agility

Health 0 | Level 1 Super Health

Intelligence 7 | Level 2 Super Intelligence

Wisdom 5 | Level 1 Super Wisdom

Willpower 7 | Level 1 Super Willpower

Charisma 3 | Level 1 Super Charisma

Luck 8 | Level 1 Super Luck

Super Power: Probability Manipulation

I also completed a quest. 25,000 Experience Points buys 2,500 PowerPoints, but I could also use them on acquiring skills, and for crafting very powerful items. I thought I should save the 25,000 and just spend the 200 from leveling up five levels.

Wilbur Trent

Human Level 1

Strength -2 | Level 2 Super Strength

Agility -2 | Level 2 Super Agility

Health 0 | Level 2 Super Health

Intelligence 7 | Level 3 Super Intelligence

Wisdom 5 | Level 3 Super Wisdom

Willpower 7 | Level 2 Super Willpower

Charisma 3 | Level 2 Super Charisma

Luck 8 | Level 2 Super Luck

Super Power: Probability Manipulation

I needed to improve my physical stats. My base stats, not my super stats needed improvement. I just didn't know how to do it. I could bench cars, jog 80 miles an hour and hold my breath for an hour. I also needed the basics. This was a hostile world if anything like my first pocket gaming universe. I needed an attack, a defense, and a movement ability. I just needed to know how to do these things. Force Blast, Force Wings, and Force Armor. A way to power down would be nice. Then I could work on my physical stats. My baseline physical stats. My strength, agility, and health should be 5 each. I would build a powers on and off switch.

I would need materials and tools. I would need a chemistry lab and nano compounds. But first I would need to get off this ship and to an English speaking country. Second I would need money, there was no EIS system here that would create and manage funds for me. I would need to do it myself.

I needed information on their language. I made up my mind on what I would do now. I waited till it was darkening and the crew settled down to eat. I then stood up at the table and did my best typing mime. I typed as I looked straight and then down, straight and down. They caught on and spoke among each other. They took me to a room with a computer. I went to google translate and pointed to one of them, and google translate. They understood and we began to converse.

They wouldn't be going to port for a while. They were deep-sea fishermen and they would be touching port in a few weeks. I didn't know what they were fishing for but that was OK with me. Through Google and Wikipedia, I learned as much as I could about this world.

As I learned, I improved. They watched with shocked eyes as I began reading faster and faster. I could soon glance at a page and I would know it word for word, such was my super intelligence and super wisdom. I pushed myself more and more until I became faster and faster. The lower right-hand corner of my vision was a star icon that was blinking.

Opening the screen was the message, "You have the option to put powerpoints into speed reading to learn the skill permanently. 50 powerpoints gives you to read a page at a glance. Your Super Intelligence will allow you to remember what you read forever."

I spent the 50 experience and nothing happened. I didn't feel any different. I felt like me. When I continued reading, however, when I didn't push myself, I glanced at a page and it was memorized. I then read every open-source mathematics book I could find. I then went to physics biology and chemistry. I studied as many programming languages I could get my hands on. I then went to google docs and began to write programming documents online. The weeks before we went to port flew by.

I also learned languages. Somalian allowed me to speak with my rescuers, then Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese, and Spanish. It was the day that we went to port that I figured out how I could be rich within a week.