Systematic Survival

15 - Next Steps

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[New Quest]

Organize Books [0/120 Books] [Reward: +1 Intelligence, +25xp, ]

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'Awesome. If I didn't have the system, this would be such a pain. I probably just would've given up and taken the scolding later. Another stat point in the bag!'

He quickly started sorting the books into their respective categories. Each box was labeled with a genre, and he was supposed to sort them alphabetically by author's last name, per his boss's instructions.

A half-hour passed.

[54/120 Books]

'Damn, this sure is taking a long time.'

There was no way he was going to miss out on a stat point, but he sure was getting bored.

[69/120 Books]

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[105/120 Books]

Another hour had passed.

'Just a few more!'

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[Quest Complete]

Organize Books [120/120 Books]

+1 Intelligence, +25xp [XP 28/120]

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His mind cleared again, and he felt he was able to focus even more than before. Though he had been a bit tired mentally from sorting all of the books, his mind felt well-rested again.

'Nice! I'm at 15 intelligence now! So I guess I'm fifty percent smarter than the average person. Not bad.'

His mind felt like it worked significantly better than when he started with 12 intelligence. But, it didn't feel like he was "smarter." Probably because he didn't attempt to learn anything new.

'I guess it makes sense. It would be weird if it filled my head with knowledge. But, I should probably study something to take advantage of my intelligence.'

He looked around and remembered stat training. But with the amount of intelligence he had, it would probably take forever to gain just 1.

'Wait, help said that training harder meant faster results. So the reading equivalent of a boulder would be...'

He looked around and spotted the perfect book. It read:

[Intro to Quantum Physics]

'Perfect!'

He picked up the book and quickly started to read through it. Though, he only had 3 more intelligence than he was used to, the rate he was able to read and pick up information felt a lot faster.

He felt like he could probably get through a math or history book without dying of boredom now. In high school, even though he used to get decent grades, he just hated studying with a passion, mainly because it took away time that he could've been gaming or watching anime instead.

'Learning is awesome!'

He never thought he would ever say those words in his entire life.

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||Stats||

Name: Matt Peterson

Age: 18

LVL: 2 [XP 28/120] (+25)

HP | 20/20

MP | 0/0

Status Effects: [None]

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||Attributes||

[Str] - 10

[Con] - 10

[Agi] - 12

[Dex] - 12

[Int] - 15 (+1)

[Luk] - 11

[Stat Points]: 0

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||Skills||

Inspect [Lv.1], Map [Lv.2], Help [Lv.1], Storage [Lv.1]

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||Quests||

-General-

Do Pushups [36/100] [Reward: +2 Strength, +20xp]

Pay the Rent [$112/800] [Reward: +Mystery Reward, +30xp]

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-Daily-

*Daily quests not available in beta*

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