Leveling Up
Seconds past.
Taka soon regained consciousness.
Looking around, he realised he was sprawled across the floor.
The voices of his father and sister could be heard a short distance away. Trying to stand Taka groaned. Due to passing out he didn't have enough strength to help himself up. Every time he tried he'd fall down, hearing a disturbance in the kitchen his father and sister raced in.
Helping him to his feet they soon realised just how weak Taka really was. Quickly they carried him to his room.
After helping him to his bed, his sister, Becky told his father how strange he had been acting during the time she was cooking breakfast.
Normally a child acting strange wouldn't draw attention, however, coupled with the fact that Taka had just collapsed both of them came to the wrong conclusion.
Thinking he was seriously ill they called the Doctor, as well as his school to let them know he wouldn't be attending.
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After hearing that he wouldn't have to attend school Taka was overjoyed mainly due to the fact that now he had enough time to investigate the system more thoroughly and figure out how to level up to increase his skills and abilities.
The Doctor arrived shortly after she was called.
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Taka's POV
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The doctor walked into the room accompanied by my father. Looking over the Doctor he couldn't help but stare and the longer he stared the more interesting she became. Fully concentrated on the Doctor, he nearly jumped out of his skin when the system 'Dinged' with a notification.
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[Ding]
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[New skill unlocked]
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[Skill: Observe]
-Observe information on the person or object you are currently studying. More information available as skill increases in rank. Possible upgrade in the future.
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Taka stained hard to fight back the smirk that wanted to appear on his lips.
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Back to normal POV
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After checking Taka over the Doctor realised that he wasn't sick, at least not on the surface but according to his father, he'd collapsed a short time ago. What really confused her was the fact the child in front of her was meant to be a 10-year-old child. But from the observations, she'd made he didn't appear to be that age or at the very least he didn't act like it.
Speaking to his father the Doctor discovered that the child had been acting strange all morning according to his elder sister. Coupled with the fact he'd collapsed they had decided to call just in case anything was wrong, which made perfect sense to the Doctor. I mean it's not normal for a 10-year-old to just suddenly collapse.
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Even though he been given a clean bill of health by the Doctor, she still recommended he rest and take it easy for a few days. Telling them to call her if any problems arose. Giving them her card, she left shortly after.
With the Doctor ordering him to rest Taka agreed fully and proceeded to do exactly what he was told, which again seemed strange to both his sister and his father.
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Time passed.
Taka was finally alone in the house.
Sitting on his bed he reopened the system.
His stats appeared once again.
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[Name: Taka Everlast]
[Male]
Age: 10 (Real age: 30)
Level: 0
Experience: 0/100
-Attributes-
-Health: 12
--Current lifespan: 80 Years
--Self Healing: Slightly faster than average
-Strength: 9
-- Maximum liftable weight: 90 kg
-- Body strength: Average adult male
-Speed: 8 (Category includes everything speed-related)
--Maximum sprint speed: 16 MPH/25.7 KPH
-Agility: 14
--(Category includes reflexes, decision making and muscle control)
-Intelligence: 255
--Basic intelligence (Understanding of things: 51)
--(Despite having incredibly high intelligence, Host will still show signs of stupidity due to current age)
--(Category includes everything involving your brain)
-Luck: 63 (Anything above 20 is heaven-defying)
Free attribute points: (Not yet calculated, level too low)
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[Passive skills](Locked, level too low)
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[Skills]
-God level Hacker
-Pain tolerance
[Other skills still locked. Too low level]
[System shop](Locked)
[Mission menu](Locked)
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Looking at his experience bar he wondered how he could increase it. With the mission menu locked he'd have to find a way around it otherwise his level would never increase.
Knowing too little about the system, Taka was stumped.
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Unlike video games he couldn't just run out of his house and kill monsters because the simple fact was this was the real world monsters didn't exist, well technically they did but only in stories.
Additionally, unlike video games, he couldn't just run out and kill a bunch of people because again this was the real world. He didn't want to be sent to prison at the age of 10 or be branded as a monster at least, not yet.
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The only idea he had was to ask the system and so he did.
Taka: System?
System: Yes host.
Taka: Is there a way that I can gain experience points without doing missions?
System: There is. Would you like to hear your options?
Hearing this Taka was ecstatic.
Excitement could be heard in his voice.
Taka: Y-Y-Yes Please system.
System: As you wish.
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[Easy]
[Hard]
[Quick]
[Slow]
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His options appeared. Followed by the voice of the system.
System: Host please pick two.
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Taka immediately chose [Easy] and [Quick].
Shortly after the system spoke.
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System: Host you have chosen [Easy] and [Quick]. Please confirm your choices.
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[Would you like to confirm?]
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Taka quickly pressed confirm.
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System: Host has chosen [Easy] and [Quick]. The quickest and easiest method is by exchanging money for experience points. This method however only works at lower levels, after exceeding level 10 this method is no longer available.
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Taka quickly paled knowing how poor his family was and the limited funds he had at his disposal.
Mustering his confidence he asked.
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Taka: System please tell me the conversion rate of money to experience points.
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System: Host, normally the conversion rate would be for every 10,000 dollars you gain one experience point but because of all of the host's good deeds, the conversion rate has been dropped drastically. So now the conversion rate is for every dollar you can get 1 experience point.
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Hearing this he erupted into a roar of celebration scaring the birds outside his window.
Thankfully, a few months before was the birthday of the old version of him. Where he'd received money instead of presents, due to his parents being unable to afford anything the old him wanted.
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Searching his room he found his money box and withdrew the money from it. There were 160 dollars in it.
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Immediately calling out to the system.
Taka: System?
System: Here Host.
Taka: I would like to exchange 100 dollars for 100 experience points.
System: [Host has requested to exchange 100 dollars for 100 experience points]
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[Would you like to confirm?]
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With no hesitation, Taka pressed confirm.
Immediately he felt a change, not only in himself but also in the system.
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A notification rang out.
[DING]
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[LEVEL UP COMPLETE]
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Status update complete.
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Following the notification, he opened his system to find himself greatly surprised by the changes that had occurred.
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[Name: Taka Everlast]
[Male]
Age: 10 (Real age: 30)
Level: 1
Experience: 0/200
-Attributes-
Health: 15
--Current lifespan: 95 Years
--Self Healing: Slightly faster than average
Strength: 12
-- Maximum liftable weight: 120 kg
-- Body strength: Average adult male
Speed: 11
--Maximum sprint speed: 22 MPH/35 KPH
Agility: 17
Intelligence: 258
--Basic intelligence (Understanding of things: 50)
--Memory Palace (Never forget: 100)
--Future-past experience (Knowledge of the future: 100)
-- New-old life (You learn something new: 8)
--(Despite having high intelligence, Host will still show signs of stupidity due to current age)
Luck: 63
Free attribute points: 100
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[Passive skills]
-Past life passive skills:
--Understand and speak all languages
--Pain tolerance
--Silent steps (Walk softly but carry a big gun)
--Heightened senses
[Skills]
-Past life skills:
--God level Hacker-(Rank: Maxed)
--Combat Proficiency-(Rank: Advanced)
--Weapon Proficiency-(Rank: Mastered)
--Vehicle Proficiency-(Rank: Advanced)
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[System shop](Unlocked)
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[Mission menu](Unlocked)
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Happy with the changes to the system, Taka jumped round the house. Clearly his physical age was affecting his mental age.
Finally calming down, he studied the system seeing all of his new skills he could do nothing but smile gleefully.
Seeing the system shop and the mission menu unlocked only made him more overjoyed. He would now be able to level up far faster than before.
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Looking at his skills most of them seemed pretty self-explanatory such as Understand and speak all languages or silent steps or heightened senses. What Taka couldn't understand were the ranks on some of his skills, so as normal he asked the system.
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Taka: System please explain the significance of the ranks on my skills?
System: Of course host. The ranks on the skills represent your mastery of them.
Taka: Please show me the states of mastery levels?
System: As you request.
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[Rank: Basic = Basic understanding]
[Rank: Intermediate = Intermediate Understanding]
[Rank: Advanced = Advanced Understanding]
[Rank: Mastered = Perfect Understanding]
[Rank: Maxed = Complete Mastery]
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Now realising that most of his skills were either maxed out or at an incredibly high rank, he was stunned.
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For the time being Taka decided not to check out the system shop or the mission menu as it wasn't important right now.
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Glancing over at his passive skills he chuckled to himself. Thinking that heightened senses were more of a curse than a gift especially when someone farts, I mean it's bad enough normally but with heightened senses, it was even worse. . . . Clearly his immature body was affecting him or that's what he'd like to blame his immaturity on.
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Though that was the case he felt it a gift to have such a skill especially when it's complemented with his language skill. The potential of the two skills was boundless.
Despite the fact he'd been occupied by his fascination with his skills, he never stopped thinking about his attribute window.
At this point, he had 100 free attribute points to spend but he was unsure whether he should spend them now or not.
This crisis was mainly taking place because after unlocking his skills and leveling up he was still unsure exactly how powerful he had become.
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Taka: Well I guess there's only one way to find out.
Taka rushed to get dressed and burst out of his front door
To where even he didn't know.