Systematic Survival

22 - Book Collection

He closed the book, this time finishing saving it to his mind palace in only 2 minutes.

'Ok, not too bad, though this was a kinda short one. I guess I'll do this for a while?'

He realized he should get a few different subjects as well, so he went around the bookstore saving books into his mind. He saved a few science ones, like biology, physics, math, etc.

He then moved onto languages and saved one for about a dozen languages. After that, he went around randomly and saved any that he thought could be useful.

[Wilderness Survival for Idiots]

[Important Wars: A History]

[Political Impacts on Environmental Awareness]

He did this repeatedly until he had saved a decent amount of books into his mind palace. He felt a little bad, because he realized he could've bought the books, and it would support his boss.

But he didn't have the money anyway, so he tried to reassure himself that it didn't matter either way. It also wasn't stealing, he was just memorizing them basically and from the outside, it just looked like he was skimming or not reading it at all.

'Sorry boss, it's just so I can get stronger. I promise I'll pay you back later.'

He made a mental note that if he ever had money, he would buy some books from this place so that his conscience would be satisfied.

He noticed that even though he had gone through a ton of books, he never got a stat increase, but he knew it was because he wasn't actually reading them.

'Ok, that should be enough. I'll read them later since I'm a bit tired of seeing books right now.'

He told his boss that he was done and prepared to leave. As he left the bookstore, it was time to decide what he should do today.

'I have a bunch of new quests, but a lot of them are hard. Still, I think there are a few I could do.'

He pulled up the quest menu again so he could judge his options.

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||General||

Pay the rent [$223/800] [Reward: +Mystery Reward, +30xp]

Reach LVL 5 [2/5] [Reward: +10 Unassigned Stat Points, +1 Artifact]

Make a stranger believe you are a celebrity [Reward: Stat Unlock, +30xp]

Climb to the top of a tree [Reward: +1 STR, +1 AGI, +20xp]

Compete in an event and win [Reward: +1 All Stats, +75xp]

Intense Training: Do 100 Pushups, 100 Sit Ups, 100 Squats, and a 10 Mile Run [Timed] [0/100, 0/100, 0/100, 0/10] [Reward: +3 STR, +3 AGI, +50xp]

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'Honestly, the tree one might not be bad. But what kind of quest is that? Climb a tree?'

He sighed. It seemed kinda stupid, but it was probably the easiest one, besides the one where he needed to make something think he was a celebrity. But he was procrastinating that one because it would honestly be super embarrassing.

'Well, I guess I'll just go with the tree then.'

He decided on the quest and started looking around for a tree. But all he saw was concrete since he was in a city...

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||Stats||

Name: Matt Peterson

Age: 18

LVL: 2 [XP 98/120]

HP | 20/20

MP | 0/0

Status Effects: (None)

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||Attributes||

[Str] - 14

[Con] - 10

[Agi] - 13

[Dex] - 12

[Int] - 16

[Luk] - 11

[Stat Points]: 0

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||Skills||

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

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||Quests||

-General-

Pay the Rent [$223/800] [Reward: +Mystery Reward, +30xp]

Reach LVL 5 [2/5] [Reward: +10 Unassigned Stat Points, +1 Artifact]

Make a stranger believe you are a celebrity [Reward: Stat Unlock, +30xp]

Climb to the top of a tree [Reward: +1 STR, +1 AGI, +20xp]

Compete in an event and win [Reward: +1 All Stats, +75xp]

Intense Training: Do 100 Pushups, 100 Sit Ups, 100 Squats, and a 10 Mile Run [Timed] [0/100, 0/100, 0/100, 0/10] [Reward: +3 STR, +3 AGI, +50xp]

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-Daily-

*Daily quests not available in beta*

||Storage||

-Items [3/25]-

Used Bullet [1], Gun [1], Knife [1]

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