ch:5 magic and talent

After a few more minutes Sam finally settled on some skills. The first skill he chose was blink. He could see blink being useful once it had leveled up a few times.

Sam looked over the next abilities descriptions before choosing them.

Shift F+ : 500 : using the power of animal magic you can change the color of any part of your body. Great for standing out in at a party.

Illusion magic F+ : 200 : using light and air magic you distort the air making something real look like a mirage. Good for making food look hot.

Heal F+ : 200 : using light and plant magic you speed up the healing speed by 5%. Don't worry you'll be fine, in a month or two.

Languages F+ : 100 : using the power of animal and air magic after Concentrating (listening or reading) you begin to understand two humanoid languages. Great if you need to ask where the bathroom is.

With blink costing 500 Hero Points he was able to completely use up all his points.

"Alright I have finished choosing my abilities." Sam said.

"Ok I will send you a prompt. Just select yes, then we can see your stat and skills screen." DTA replied

Have you finished selecting your stats class and abilities? Yes : no

Sam selected yes and waited. After a few minutes DTA said "Now it's ready. All you have to do is think system and your information screen will pop up."

With a rapidly beating heart Sam thought system. A screen popped up and he excitedly started to read.

Name: Sam

Age: 18

Race: human

Title: N/A

Class: N/A

Talent: Imbue Poison F+

Affinities: N/A

Level: 0

Health: 100/100

Mana: 90/90

Stats—

Strength: 8

Dexterity: 9

Endurance: 7

Vitality: 10

Intelligence: 10

Mind: 9

Stealth: 10

Free stat points: 100

Skills—

Active:

Passive:

Unlearned: Blink, Shift, illusion magic, heal, languages

"I would suggest that you look at your talent first." DTA said after a few moments. Sam nodded as he concentrated on the talent line.

Talent:

Imbue poison F+ :

Passive: Grants a 10% decrease in poison damage done to holder of this talent.

Active: holder can imbue anything with a poison. Current poison level F rank. Poison does 5 points of damage per second over a 5 second period.

Note: talent can be upgraded by ingesting poisonous ingredients.

As soon as he had finished reading, DTA exclaimed "that's why I was prompted to choose you! I knew there had to be something powerful about you."

"Umm thanks I guess?" Sam said

"No. No! Let me explain." DTA said "When I'm searching for Heroes, I have a kind of radar that points me to the ones that can help the world I'm supplying."

"Usually the Heroes I get have a high Hero Point balance. It has been a while since I have picked a Hero with a powerful talent instead."

"This talent doesn't look that powerful to me." Sam said

"That's because you haven't seen or heard about other talents. The most common talents are either passive or active. Only the really rare ones have both. And it's upgradable."

"With this talent you definitely have the potential of a Hero." DTA concluded

"Now we are almost done I just have some information about how stats are in Nova. First off the average adult human on nova has 10 in each stat. Second the most any Hero on Nova has achieved is 1000. There seams to be some sort of cap at that number."

"Lastly when you have a class you are give 2 to 4 free stat points into the base stats for that class when you level up. All classes give you 5 free stat points per level as well."

"If I where you I would avoid leveling up until you have a class so you don't miss out on those points. All Heros get 100 stat points to start at level 0. I will give you a few minutes to allocate your stat points, then it will be time for me to send you to Nova."

Sam looked at his stats trying to decide which ones to buff up.