Chapter 7: Slime Hunting Before Breakfast

“When I was a kid, I loved playing games with stats in them. I liked stats like str or agi because giving points to these made me stronger immediately.

What a strange thing destiny is. Right now I’m also strengthening my own body using stats. It feels nice.”

Although Eren couldn’t touch it with his hand, he stared, fascinated, at the numbers on the colorful panel floating in the air. He was only level 2 and had two points to use. But he was already excited, because all his stats automatically increased every time he leveled up.

My strength went up to 11. Am I stronger now? In this universe, str increases the quality of bones and muscles. Am I?

Eren walked around for a while, ignoring the slimes sleeping at the bottoms of the trees, and approached an empty tree. Then, without using all his strength, he threw a normal punch.

Ahh!

His hand hurt, and he couldn’t notice any change. The stupid idea only hurt his hand. Still holding his hand, he started thinking.

A normal person’s physical strength was 10 while he was 11. So, on average, he was 10% stronger than an ordinary person.

“If my math doesn’t fail me, this is how the system should work, right?”

But at least for the moment, he wasn’t successful in measuring his physical change. After the failed experiment, once the pain in his hand subsided, he started walking again. He didn’t want to take a break from leveling up anyway.

Eren didn’t know how much time he had before Emily did her morning inspection and went to breakfast. He immediately looked at the slimes around and started waving the knife in his left hand.

[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime.]

[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime.]

[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime.]

After killing three of them, he didn’t see any other slimes around. His eyes swept the area until he noticed something. After dying, those tiny slimes completely turned into liquid and mixed with the soil.

Is this what happens when slugs die?

Eren was really ignorant about gardening and animals. That’s why the way slimes died was so interesting. After watching for a while, he started walking again, thinking about other things.

In each level, the required exp for the next level increased considerably. But there was no certain percentage.

Because Eren had killed a high-level cat, when he was level 1, the remaining exp from the cat was lost. The system wanted new level 1 creatures to start with a clean exp bar. So even if Eren killed a level 1 creature, he would level up immediately, but the exp bar would still be empty.

It was enough to kill a single Level 1 creature to go from Level 0 to Level 1.

But it took 3 kills to get from Level 1 to Level 2.

Now even though he killed three monsters, his exp bar was more than half full.

It would be awful if the exp required was tripled or doubled for every level up.

Eren relieved himself with his math calculations. But in the meantime, he couldn’t find any other slime. He was walking among the trees south of the village, and when he looked carefully, the parts where the trees ended and the outer field of the village started were visible.

After wandering around for a minute, he finally saw two slimes together. He immediately ran over and pierced the harmless creatures that made no resistance.

[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime.]

[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime.]

[Congratulations! You have reached Level 3. All stats are +1. You acquired 1 Stat Point to use!]

This time, Eren could really feel that something had changed.

He felt that something had changed, both physically and spiritually. It was so weird, and he couldn’t find the exact words to describe it. It was as if his self-confidence had increased by a drop.

Could it be my Charisma?

But since there was no one to answer him, he looked excitedly at the changes in the numbers.

/ –

Usable Evon Stat Points: 3

-Strength: 12

-Perception: 13

-Endurance: 11

-Intelligence: 13

-Agility: 9

-Mana: 3

-Charisma: 8

-Luck: 14

/ –

Even if he looked at his arm and leg muscles, he couldn’t really see a big difference. Then he frowned and sighed.

“As I develop my Str, I would like my body to be muscular on its own. In fact, it would be nice to have a body structure that automatically looks good.”

For the next minute, he searched for visible changes in his body. As Eren examined his body more carefully, he realized details he’d had difficulty seeing before.

For example, although his external appearance was similar, he was actually stronger inside. He had some muscles he hadn’t had before, and even his stomach had a vague hardness that had never existed. Deciding these changes were a good sign, he took a few steps.

Then he took a deep breath when he was sure he wouldn’t lose this slime zone.

Eren ran for the first time after a couple of years.

“If my speed increases as Agility plus Strength increases, a very fun future awaits me.”

He still felt like he was going to be out of breath right away. But despite feeling psychologically tired, he never got tired in that short time. Eren was definitely faster than before.

As a bonus, he didn’t look like a baby duck anymore, whose legs wobbled like they used to.

Then he focused on a particular stat that he had the least expectation in his stats.

-Charisma: 8

In the moments when he leveled up, he felt that his self-confidence had increased a little bit. His eyes widened as he read the effect of this stat again, with greater attention.

*Demonstrates language & social knowledge and general communication skills. It’s the person’s control over all basic emotions such as excitement and fear.”

Eren knew that he had three idle stat points and that he would have much more than other people because of his special situation.

Although I don’t know how long this situation of increasing all stats by 1 will continue. But I still want at least all my features to go up to embarrassing levels.

[Charisma: 8 + 2 > 10 (Requires 2 Evon Stat Points)]

[Do you confirm?]

“Yes”.

Although he didn’t need to say it out loud, Eren liked to whisper about important things like this. He felt stronger and cooler that way.

[Congratulations. Charisma: 10]

Now that’s certain. You’ll be using “congratulations” all the time.

No matter how jokingly Eren said it, he liked to hear the sound of the system. Hearing the sound of the system made him think he was doing something right.

He looked up at his hands and then around. Considering his own two points and the 3 from previous levels, Eren’s charisma had increased from “5” to 10 from yesterday to today.

It’s a twofold increase!

That’s why this young man waited for a change. He lived by the age of 25 constantly worrying about everything. But now Eren hoped things would change.

Maybe he would have been more daring, maybe more impressive huh?

But after waiting for the next minute, something occurred to him. He noticed an important detail now.

No matter how much there has been a double increase, my charisma is 10.

It’s the same as an average person!

“…”

It’s like I threw my two precious stat points in the trash!

“Hey, System Lady! I made a mistake. Can’t you just give my two points back and restore my pathetic charisma?” He said this aloud without any shame.

Eren already knew that apart from adding points on the stat screen, there is a point deduction sign. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not press this button.

[To perform Attribute Reduction by spending Evon Progression Points, you need to choose your first Profession]

So when I reduce any stat points, you will not give me back the points I spent, and on top of that, you will have more.

No fu*king way!

I would never use this nonsense!

Eren did a lot of research for the next few minutes, but he couldn’t feel any other change in himself.

Maybe he was already using these modifications, for example, maybe he had faster response times thanks to Agility 9, or he was a bit smarter thanks to Intelligence 13.

But no matter what he did, he couldn’t see these changes on his own.

Then he tried to hunt down a few more slimes until Emily arrived. Peh. He only found two slimes.

Eren had completely consumed this Level 1 Slime Field.

But he wished there was a giant tsunami of slimes…

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