Name Degritone Race Human Resources 135.346.../135.346... (+903.051...) 114.252.../114.252... (+749.625...) 148.728.../148.728... (+275.55...) Class None Experience 2500/0 Strength 16 Endurance 11 Vitality 44 Agility 8 Physical 35 Magic 59

SP: 0

Summon Ally lvX

Block lv21

Empower lv9

Mana Manipulation lv7

Mana Weapon lv17

Mana Armor lv21

PP: 71

Defense 10/10

Offense 10/10

Support 0/10

Damage Reduction 0/40

Raw Health 0/40

Regeneration 0/40

DPS 0/40

Burst 0/40

He looked at Regeneration's popup to see if there's anything new in Path popups after the change - well, revert.

Regeneration

Durability matters little if an enemy is able to wear you down over time.

Required Paths: Defense

???

Completion: ???

Unlocks Energetic and Lively Paths

Slightly surprised at the existence of other Paths in the description, he brought up Energetic's description.

Energetic

You must have access to a Path to see its description.

Disappointed, he closed them, then hugged his Patron once more, who had started another cup by this point. "Just hit 76, so it's," his stomach growls, "time for me to go. I would like suggestions on Paths, if possible."

"I'm not going to tell you what to do, but Revitalizing Aura is from a Path that requires the Healing Path and a Path beyond Regeneration, the latter of which you were going to get, anyway. When was the last time you ate?"

"Uhhh..." He thought for a bit. "Some time before the dungeon, so over two months. I just need to get to the Endurance thresh hold for no food requirement again. Still 60?"

She nodded, saying, "Yep. You have food available where you going?"

He nodded, leaving out the fact he'd have to actually get out of a dungeon and through a hoard of level 7 goblins to get to food.

"One last thing, before you go," she said, turning so her legs fall off the side of his and her torso to face him. "Today has been fun. Thank you." She hugged him. "See you whenever. The longer you wait, the more power I can give you, if you need it, and I won't let you come for free the time after the next, either. Well, as free as these new Patron Paths will allow. Goodbye."

Degritone nodded, saying, "Mm."

A few seconds later, he found himself back in the dungeon and out of her embrace.

Test of Loyalty passed!

Despite passing the test, your Patron did not deem you fit for reward at this time.

Initiate of Loyalty 0/10

He sadly looked down and to his right. Not at anything in particular, just out of sadness at no longer having a loli in his arms, though not at the lack of rewards from being with her. He knew that would happen.

After many seconds, he sighed and went to the dungeon entrance, where a few Goblins had made it in. It was at this point that he realized that level 0 to level 7 was a much larger gap than it had been before the reset. Level 7s would have almost one thousand Skill levels available, while he only had 76. He sent a message to Beltag.

Degritone: Hey, are you available? I have a Skill that can summon you temporarily and I need backup. I got reset to zero with the system update, since we had been introduced during the tests and need help getting out of my location.

After a few seconds, he responded.

Beltag: Alright. You good for 20 seconds?

Degritone: Yeah. Message me when ready.

Exactly 20 seconds later, he got a message from Beltag, which he didn't even read as he activated Summon Ally for the first time ever. A very obvious golden glow erupted around him, notifying the goblins of his position. As they were lining up to shoot at him, Beltag appeared.

At his appearance, the goblins scattered, many heading back out of the dungeon. "I just need to get back home. Maybe 1200 feet or so north from the dungeon entrance, though I'll probably be safe if you can get me so much as across the road."

Beltag nodded and headed for the dungeon entrance, which was tiny in comparison to him, but he disappeared through it regardless of the physically impossible size difference. Degritone soon followed and, with Beltag's help, quickly made it across the road, Beltag crushing a few trees along his way.

"My parents would probably be mad if they saw that we'd destroyed a large portion of the woods, so you just stand guard on the road for a few seconds, maybe a minute. Thanks for your help. You can dismiss yourself if I forget to dismiss you when I get back. I'd like if you left the goblins alive, though, since they'll be relatively easy experience after- experience after my family all get our levels back, and shouldn't pose too big of a problem before we get our Skill levels back, since we have defenses and weapons in place."

Beltag sat down as he nodded. "No goblins will get past this road."

Degritone nodded and had an uneventful trip back home. Once he got up the hill past the creek, he dismissed Beltag and was soon after seen by his family members manning the wall. They shouted, "Don's back!"

His parents came running out to see him, his mother hugged him, and he told a generalized and shortened version of the story of what happened while he was gone.

After eating and making sure nothing happened while he was gone, he went to pick up his class once more. This time, instead of immediately being mentally taken to his soul, he's given a prompt.

Choose your class!

Knight

Blitzer

Slayer

Sorcerer

Wizard

Warlock

Support

Crafter

Handyman

Looking over the classes, he took a while to debate between Blitzer's Stamina, Strength, and Agility and Knight's Health and Health regeneration. The fact it's the only one to give a real boost to health regeneration is what made Knight win. Clicking it, he once more appeared inside his soul with Ted accompanying him.

"Hm. After the reset, I'd expected you to be healed of whatever damage was done to your soul. I guess not. Well, this time shouldn't be as painful, at least," Ted said.

As before, he received announcements about his soul being refined and watched as a construct of colored rings was made, but this time, the pain was only slightly worse than a bad headache.

Congratulations! You have obtained a class!

Deferred experience has already been applied.

Knight

Guard lv1

Defeat monsters to level up and become more powerful.

Quest received.

Defense of Grimey Gulch

Now that his cap's been increased, he decided it was time to finally spend his PP. It may not have actually mattered because of the cap now being a soft cap, but he didn't want to risk any experience being wasted. Regeneration gave 1 Vitality every 4th PP while Support gave 1 free stat every PP.

Congratulations! You have completed the Regeneration Path!

Rapid Cell Division lvX

3 Vitality

50 Health regeneration

10 Stamina regeneration

1 Mana regeneration

10 Health regeneration per level

5 Stamina regeneration per level

1 Mana regeneration per level

Congratulations! You have completed the Support path!

Pacifist lv1

60 flat Mana

10 flat Mana regeneration

"Well, Pacifist is useless as anything other than a PP generator. Anyway, let's," get to grinding, he finished in his mind, for some reason.