In retrospect, Buff X could be absurdly broken in a world like this.

When I was four I realized that I could stack it on itself.

But what I didn’t realize is that almost everything in this world could be a buff.

Ever played The Sims? It’s something like that.

Being too happy or being too excited could trigger a buff that would just be the emotions.

Eating your favorite food or just enjoying the moment would take away all my stacks, which kinda sucked.

But since I turned ten I didn’t miss a single day where I didn’t successfully apply the buff on itself.

I was twelve now, and when I used [Judge] on myself it told me that I successfully stacked it 750 times.

I still had to be very careful not to fuck it up, wasting all the years I spend doing this shit.

Sometimes I even refused to do certain things, like eating a freshly baked pie my mother had made or eating candies.

My new parents thought I was a very strange kid indeed.

Still didn’t have many friends though.

If they only would know.

I hadn’t done any grinding yet but still got to Level 15 and had some XP to spend, maybe it was time to buy something with it.

Faye, you in here?

“That I am.”

Could you tell me some of my options?

“No, do it yourself.”

A menu popped up.

There were a lot of motherfucking skills, like actually a ton.

A scrolled for a few minutes but nothing stood out to me.

You had your generic [Fireball] and [Ice Beam] but there were some more interesting and vague than that.

[Transform: Rainbow Dragon], [Bounce] or [Eagel Vison], I think I heard that somewhere before

And after a few more minutes I still found nothing.

To my actual surprise, there was a ‘Randomize’ button just right next to the spell options.

I thought about pressing it but I couldn’t just carelessly spend my precious XP, could I?

Ah, fuck it.

“I would not recommend spending experience that way. In this world, people glorify the skills they have. It is a part of their being, part of their lives and should be spent extremely carefully.”

I don’t care.

Then I pressed the button

Ding, ding, ding, ding, like a one-armed bandit it went.

And I got… [Power Beam]

Sounds like something out of Dragon Ball.

I was outside near the forest and there was no one around so I could just play with the skill.

I thought in the distance that I could see a small old man who had a turtle shell on his back giving me a thumbs up.

I put my hand together and positioned them on my hip and yelled, “KA ME HA ME HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.”

Out went a big blue blast of energy and it decimated one of the trees in front of me.

That was pretty cool but it also cost me half of my entire MP.

I’ll fucking do it again.

“HADOUKEN.”

Another tree went down.