I have an intelligence of 50
I arrived at the same park from yesterday and after moving to a secluded part of it surrounded by numerous trees I used [ID: Create] to move from my home dimension to the one of my own creation. After that was done I checked my new stats to confirm what I briefly thought about after I finished the last quest which granted me another level.
Name: Issei Hyoudou
Title: N/A
Status: N/A
Race: Human Job: The Gamer
Level: Lvl 5 Next Level: 1.9%
HP: 550/550 R: 1% (5.5) per Minute
MP: 932/932 R: 1.8% (16.8) per Minute
STR: 6.6 (6+0.6)
VIT: 10
DEX: 5.5 (5+0.5)
INT: 33 (30+3)
WIS: 18
LUCK: 10
Stat Points: 20
Money: 300$
Just like I thought I had twenty points to spend on stats and my mana regeneration increased with both the augmenting of my mana pool (Whether it was by levelling up or by increasing my INT) and my WIS. As those two where right now it would quite impractical for me to grind and fight but luckily my INT was already pretty high and I had the points to quickly correct that right now.
So without too much preamble, I put the twenty points into INT increased the base stat to fifty putting it at a total of fifty-five thanks to the passive boost Mana Manipulation gave me. Not a second later three alert windows appeared in front of my face and I smirked as I looked at them. It seemed like different from the Manhwa I will gain two passive skills and a random active skill every fifty base points per stat. That was awesome.
[The skill 'Mana Affinity' has been granted by reaching 50 on INT!]
[The skill 'Medium Mana Capacity' has been granted by reaching 50 on INT!]
[The skill 'Knowledge Absorption' has been granted by reaching 50 on INT!]
[Mana Affinity. Passive. Lvl Max. A skill that allows the user to become more sensitive to mana and handle it better. 10% increase in MP recovery rate. 5% increase in total MP amount. 5% increase in magic attack. 5% increase in magic defence. 30% increase in MP related skill effects.]
[Medium Mana Capacity. Passive. Lvl Max. An ability is given to the few users that are born with an exceptional ability to handle mana. Mana Based attacks are 15% stronger. Uses 10% less mana for all abilities.]
[Knowledge Absorption. Active. Lvl 1 [0.0%]. A skill that allows the user to use mana to directly absorb the knowledge from any written source. The time spent to absorb the knowledge depends on the amount of knowledge and the amount of mana used. Cost: Depends on the user.]
I closed the new windows after basking in the feeling of increasing exponentially in power and becoming more in tune with my mana before I opened my status window and my skill window to see how much my actions have affected and I was more than pleased. I now had almost sixteen hundred MP and my mana regeneration rate was above thirty which was pretty damn good. The cost of the skills had dropped fairly and I couldn't be bothered to check how much damage I could dis out now but I was sure it was significantly more than yesterday.
And the funny thing was that I wasn't done. I sat down on the comfortable grass and leaned my back into the bark of tree behind me and took a deep breath as I relaxed. I then began to count focusing on the numbers and forgetting about everything else. It was very easy to do seeing as I had a very Gamer's Mind, high INT and I was sure my WIS also had a role in how easy it was for me to concentrate on what I wanted to do.
[A new skill has been created through a special act. The skill 'Meditation' has been created.]
[Meditation. Active. Lvl 1 [0.0%]. Through continuous inner focus, a skill to sharpen focus, order thoughts, and increase clarity of mind and awareness of body was created. Passively increases VIT, INT and WIS by 20%. HP and MP regeneration increase by 100% when active. Warning: Cannot be activated during combat.]
With that done I know sported eighteen hundred MP and a recovery rate of forty-two per minute. My HP also increased to six hundred thanks to the bonus Meditation gave my VIT. A part of me wondered if I was growing too fast in power by I ruthlessly squashed it. I recalled that DxD character normally grew strong fast, Issei was the best example, but The Gamer ability would take that growth rate and multiply it many times over. So I guess I was growing fast but not as much as one would think without this ability.
And now I felt ready to start grinding my skills. I looked at the time on my HUD and realized that I had more or less six hours to level up my skills as much as I could to get ready for tomorrow which was when I would tackle the [ID: Zombie] to grind my levels and that of my skills further. It was the reason why spent those points. I was low level, yes, but I was way stronger than what my level would suggest just because the skills I have gotten. Meaning that at this point raising levels will be literally a piece of cake. And since I will grow stronger as I rose levels…
Letting that sink in I decided that it was time to begin. The first thing I did was to activate meditation which put my MP regeneration rate at eight four. Then I activated mana shield, the transparent blue sphere of protective energy, forming into existence into a cocoon around me. While activation the skill now cost me thirty-six and maintaining it cost me fifty four my MP didn't go down since the process of activating it and maintaining it was independent of each other. I still had thirty MP on my RR so I activated Reinforcement, which now cost twenty-seven, and decided to grind those two skills at the same time seeing that I only needed to keep them activated for them to rise.
It only took ten minutes for them to go up by two levels and it took twice that amount of time to get one more level. By the time an hour and a half passed the two skills barely reached level five and I stopped feeding mana to the skills and let out a breath as I relaxed. [Reinforcement] and [Mana Shield] were not at level five each and their effects had improved a bit and their cost had dropped a little too. [Meditation] when up by two levels in that time as well but nothing seemed to change with the skill.