Utility

Luck

Passive

Tier 3

Luck of the Draw I [Rank 1] (0 / 800) (5 + natural fortune)% chance to get a second skill point on level up Every instance of this skill ranks it up Chance goes up by 5% per rank.

“Baghric… isn’t this skill actually cheating?” Jason had already gotten up and was right now talking to Baghric as they ran together. The schedule for the day was the same as yesterday. Five hours of running, five hours of trying to actually hurt the damned dwarf, then six hours of said dwarf punching Jason. Then eight hours of blessed sleep.

“Nope. Only those who really invest in luck will ever get te extra point and think of how powerful ye are. This is what I meant when I said that luck will show it’s worth in te future, but not very quickly. Once that skill there starts activating and ye get the future passive skills then ye’ll be getting more and more things that others don’t have te opportunity to get. But o’ course it’s all at a higher level. Until then laddie… yer just a punching bag. That’s why so many die before they can reach level 25. They don’t ‘ave enough offense or defense.”

“But what about skills? With enough skills you can get a respectable amount of offense or defense. So why don’t people just get those?” Jason dodged a branch that randomly fell ahead of him. Stupid luck. Though I’m getting better at dodging those.

“They try laddie, but with only a hundred health yer gonna get smacked hard by anything above level ten that’s actually tryna kill ya. I’m a cleric and have almost nothing invested in fortitude and yet I’m doing good damage to ya without even putting in effort.” Baghric nimbly moved through the underbrush and the roots.

“So I’ll be super weak until I’m not…” Very specific Baghric. Love it love it.

“Yup boyo. That’s right.” Great great. Finding my own path and all that. Can he not just tell me straight up. Jason sighed and just continued to run.

After that day this schedule continued for eight more days.

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“Let me sleep damn you.” Jason rolled over and covered his head with the wolf hood. His attacker on the other hand had different ideas. Jason was hoisted up and literally tossed out of the tent.

“GET UP LADDIE!!!” Baghric did his customary wake up call. Jason just groaned and rolled over again completely ignoring the fact that he had been thrown. Baghric decided it was time for drastic measures. Picking Jason up Baghric trudged through the woods. After only a minute or two Baghric came upon his destination with Jason on his shoulder.

Then Baghric threw Jason towards the ground as hard as he could.

“COLD COLD COLD!” Jason squealed as his body hit, not the ground, but the piercing cold water of a lake that they had found. Jason crawled out of the lake and laid there drenched and shivering, yet wide awake. “I’m up you bastard.”

“Good laddie. Now let’s get started for the day.” Baghric started to walk away towards the camp. Jason got to a sitting position and then started allocating stat and skill points before following Baghric.

Experience Gained:

Well of Fortune: 110

Unnatural Speed: 66

Unnatural Endurance: 66

Unnatural Flexibility: 66

Unnatural Awareness: 16

Wooden Muscles: 1800

Wooden Skin: 1800

Fast-Twitch Nerves: 685

Wooden Fists: 625

Aura of Misfortune: 9472

Stone Bones: 1800

Stone Muscles: 1800

Stone Skin: 1800

Instant-Twitch Nerves: 685

Stone Fists: 625

Luck of the Draw I: 6400

Iron Bones: 1800

Iron Muscles: 1800

Iron Skin: 1800

Automatic-Reflexive Nerves: 685

Iron Fists: 625

LEVEL UP

Luck of the Draw I (VII) activates

General Information

Class: Blessed One

Species: Human

Favor: NA

Experience: 17,066 / 26,463

Level: 19

Titles: None

Stats

Fortitude:

10

100 / 100 hp

Vitality:

10

5 hp / hour

Endurance:

10

100 / 100 sp

Vigor:

10

5 sp / hour

Focus:

10

100 / 100 mp

Willpower

10

5 mp / hour

Charisma:

10

10 bf

Luck:

100

800% (1840%) | 80% (128%)

Stat Points Available: 5

Skills and Talents

Active:

Offense: None

Defense: None

Utility: None

Passive:

Offense:

T1 {Wooden Fists [VII] (2425 / 4400)} T2 {Stone Fists [III] (50 / 1600)} T3 {Iron Fists [II] (450 / 1600)}

Defense:

T1 {Wooden Bones [X], Wooden Muscles [IX] (6800 / 7400), Wooden Skin [IX] (3200 / 7400), Fast-Twitch Nerves [VII] (20 / 4400)} T2 {Stone Bones [VII] (1600 / 8800), Stone Muscles [VII] (1600 / 8800), Stone Skin [VI] (4400 / 6400), Instant-Twitch Nerves [IV] (2680 / 2800)} T3 {Iron Bones [V] (3200 / 8800), Iron Muscles [IV] (5200 / 5600), Iron Skin [IV] (5200 / 5600), Automatic-Reflex Nerves [III] (1710 / 3200)}

Utility:

T1 {Lodenstone of Chance [X], Well of Fortune [IV] (470 / 1400), Unnatural Endurance [V] (816 / 2200), Unnatural Speed [V] (602 / 2200), Unnatural Flexibility [II] (64 / 400), Unnatural Awareness [I] (64 / 200)} T2 {Aura of Misfortune [VII] (9183 / 11600)} T3 {Luck of the Draw I [VII] (0 / 17600)}

Talents: Touch of a Gambler, Mark of Fortune

Skill Points Available: 2

“I have enough experience to get tier four of luck passives now. Might as well,” Jason was as always mumbling to himself as he got up from the ground and started walking back to camp. It had been two days since he had broken into the fourth threshold of the luck stat and at that point he had been activating Luck of the Draw I every level up and nothing bad had really happened since then.

Jason had actually gotten pretty arrogant for a while there until Baghric reduced him to ten health in an instant, then Jason had gotten the correct message. Random events will always go well for me. Yet in a fight most of it is not random. It’s skill and stat based and my stats are sorely lacking for a fight. Alright let’s see tier four of luck.

Utility

Luck

Passives

Tier 4

Luck Would Have It I [Rank I] (0 / 1600) (2 + natural fortune/4)% chance to double stat points earned on level up Every instance of this skill ranks it up Chance goes up by 2% each rank. Costs 8 skill points

“Baghric!” Jason immediately started sprinting towards Baghric. Jason could now move a lot faster than he used to be able to. In part because his Unnatural Speed and Stamina skills ranked up, but more because he was simply more fit.

When getting skills a part of the body changes to adapt to that skill. Getting Wooden Bones actually made his bones denser and heavier, which Baghric claimed would also mean he needed to get Wooden Muscles so that his muscles had the strength to efficiently move his bones. Then he needed to get Wooden Skin so that his muscles wouldn’t tear his skin every time he moved and finally Fast-Twitch Nerves so that he could react quickly with his now heavier body.

Jason after getting those skills had simply liked how it had felt. Being punched by Baghric hurt a lot less now which meant that Baghric actually had to start trying to injure him during training. His muscles were dense and with the constant use of them they had become wiry and strong which meant he could run a lot faster and jump a lot higher. His physical body just from the combination of skills alone was becoming something superhuman. Adding onto it the additional damage resistance from the tier two Stone and tier three Iron skills meant that Jason’s body was more than a match for Earth’s top athletes along with his natural defense being fit for someone in medieval plate armor.

Unnatural Flexibility and Unnatural Awareness were the newest additions to his skillset and they were chosen because one time Jason when running was ambushed by a wolf pack. He almost lost an arm to a wolf’s maw because his body was stiff and inflexible. To fix that he had gotten Flexibility and then he had gotten Awareness so that he might be able to notice dangerous things like this earlier. He ended up killing them with Baghric’s help pretty easily. Now he still couldn’t see the levels of them because he figured he would have time to worry about that particular skill when he was level 24. According to Baghric once a person reached level 24 they had to go and imbue their entire body with higher tier mana which normally takes around four to five years.

That’s why everyone at level 25 has all their other skills already maxed out. It’s because they were stuck at level 24 for so long. Baghric for example is in his third year at level 24 and is planning on journeying with his team to find a place fitting for them to break the bottleneck when he gets back to the city. He also said that he had already made preparations for if he didn’t come back. More often than not even if a person survives long enough to reach a place with the required mana tier they’ll die trying to absorb it into their body.

Which bodes amazing for me. I in particular have to eat a fruit that was grown in the higher mana tier or eat a heart of a monster that belongs to that tier. According to Baghric either way has an equal chance to simply make me explode. Damnit. Jason made it to camp in less than a minute saw Baghric just sitting by the makeshift fire with a… desk? Whatever.

“Baghric the fourth tier luck passive says it needs eight skill points to get.” Baghric raised one of his eyebrows and then started to stroke his beard.

“Well laddie I’m gon be lying if I said I think that unfair. Ye only got te tier three skill and look at how much ye are gon get from it. That skill shoulda cost more than one skill point to. Well get it or don’t I don’t care. It’s not me build it’s yers.” Baghric shrugged and then gestured to two sacks on the edge of the clearing he had made the night before. One was completely dry and the other was soaked and dripped at the bottom. “Take a bath and change yer clothes. Then we start a running again, boyo.”

Jason had gotten used to the laissez-faire attitude at which Baghric taught him. After all, Baghric really only trained him according to the skills he thought were needed. The training the past few days had evolved from simply Jason trying to beat up Baghric to Jason and Baghric actually sparring. Jason was catching up in levels and his body was better than Baghric’s so the sparring had actually gone well for him. Considering the fact that he was a complete beginner at least. Baghric could still completely outclass Jason, but that was just because of skill and not actual fitness. They had done five hours of running, five hours of sparring, then the customary six hours of Baghric getting to beat the living shit out of Jason. Thankfully that last one became so hard for Baghric that at one point he just couldn’t do enough damage with his fists to make it a meaningful training session.

Jason had started to laugh in victory until Baghric had taken out a sword from his pendant. Apparently with a sword it’s much easier to cut through skin and muscle… who knew. Jason reigned in his frustration with Baghric and then picked up the sack that didn’t drip. Jason made his way back to the lake and then stripped and started to clean his body.

Hard, wiry muscles were across Jason’s entire body. Training and skills had turned him into what was essentially a human leopard. Of course his upper body was also crisscrossed with scars. His chest, arms, and thighs all had thin white lines going every which way showing where Baghric had cut him. There were some older scars too. One’s that looked like little craters with white veins extending outward. Those were from where Baghric had punched him so hard that he broke through skin and almost through Jason’s muscle. Jason had honestly grown used to pain at this point. The slow change that was overcoming him due to him becoming more like a monster had made it so he could ignore almost all pain that he felt.

Sometimes he thought that his nails were a bit longer and sharper or that his teeth felt like they were getting pointy, but each time he examined his nails with his eyes or his teeth with his tongue he found that he was wrong. Jason dunked his head underneath the water and scrubbed the muck off of his face and hair. Now that he was prepared the water wasn’t as shocking and cold anymore. After washing he got out of the lake and stood on a big and flat rock by the lake so that he wouldn’t get any dirt on his body before putting his clothes on. Putting on the new wolf skin suit, which Baghric had made the previous day, Jason breathed in some of the fresh forest air.

The forest calmed him. It called to him and it soothed him. The grass and trees felt like they were a part of him. He belonged here. Away from the bustle of the city where he used to live. Away from the smog and the concrete. The forest was where he belonged. Jason stood there breathing in the beautiful air for a bit longer and then headed back to camp.

Baghric was waiting back at camp and at some point had taken out a quill, some ink, and a sheet of paper. On the paper were foreign scribbles that looked to be arranged in an order of some type. Each of the twenty symbols looked almost completely different. A few looked similar with a few key differences here and there, but there were only two sets of those almost duplicates.

“Laddie. I’ve made us move slowly closer to te city and now finally we’re just about there. At te pace we can go now. You naturally and me with me magic we can arrive at te city in a bit under ten days. So now we’re going ta spend eight hours of te day studying and the final eight hours sparring, then ye can sleep. We aren’t going ta run and I’m not going ta spend time swinging a sword at yer face. Yer just going ta learn te language and how ta fight properly with that tanky body of yers”

Jason already knew this was going to be a necessary thing for him to do, but that didn’t mean he had to enjoy it. I was never good at learning languages. Not even my own. Christ almighty. Jason sat down opposite Baghric with a sigh and a weary face. Then he got to work.

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New Skills

Defense

Physical

Bones / Muscles / Skin / Nerves

Passive

Tier 1

Wooden Bones [Rank I] (0 / 200) Increases bones' resistance to slashing dmg by 10% and blunt dmg by 5% Increase slash resistance by 10% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 5% per rank Wooden Muscles [Rank I] (0 / 200) Increases muscles' resistance to slashing dmg by 10% and blunt dmg by 5% Increase slash resistance by 10% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 5% per ran Wooden Skin [Rank I] (0 / 200) Increases skin's resistance to slashing dmg by 10% and blunt dmg by 5% Increase slash resistance by 10% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 5% per rank Fast-Twitch Nerves [Rank I] (0 / 200) Decrease reaction time by 2% Increase reduction by 2% per rank

Defense

Physical

Bones / Muscles / Skin / Nerves

Passive

Tier 2

Stone Bones [Rank I] (0 / 400) Increases bones' resistance to slashing dmg by 20% and blunt dmg by 7.5% Increase slash resistance by 20% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 7.5% per rank Stone Muscles [Rank I] (0 / 400) Increases muscles' resistance to slashing dmg by 20% and blunt dmg by 7.5% Increase slash resistance by 20% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 7.5% per rank Stone Skin [Rank I] (0 / 400) Increases skin's resistance to slashing dmg by 20% and blunt dmg by 7.5% Increase slash resistance by 20% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 7.5% per rank Instant-Twitch Nerves [Rank I] (0 / 400) Decrease reaction time by 4% Increase reduction by 4% per rank

Defense

Physical

Bones / Muscles / Skin / Nerves

Passive

Tier 3

Iron Bones [Rank I] (0 / 800) Increases bones' resistance to slashing dmg by 30% and blunt dmg by 10% Increase slash resistance by 30% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 10% per rank Iron Muscles [Rank I] (0 / 800) Increases muscles' resistance to slashing dmg by 30% and blunt dmg by 10% Increase slash resistance by 30% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 10% per rank Iron Skin [Rank I] (0 / 800) Increases skin's resistance to slashing dmg by 30% and blunt dmg by 10% Increase slash resistance by 30% per rank Increase blunt resistance by 10% per rank Automatic-Reflex Nerves [Rank I] (0 / 800) Decrease reaction time by 6% Increase reduction by 6% per rank

Offense

Melee

Unarmed

Passive

Tier 2

Stone Fists [Rank I] (0 / 400) Increases fists' damage in unarmed combat by 20% Increases damage by 20% per rank

Offense

Melee

Unarmed

Passive

Tier 3

Iron Fists [Rank I] (0 / 800) Increases fists' damage in unarmed combat by 30% Increases damage by 30% per rank

Utility

Control

Body

Passive

Tier 1

Unnatural Flexibility [Rank I] (0 / 200) Increases flexibility by 10% Increases by 10% per rank

Utility

Perception

Eyesight

Passive

Tier 1

Unnatural Awareness [Rank I] (0 / 200) Increases sharpness of vision by 10% Increases by 10% per rank