Ch. 6 Growth 1/3
After a week or some of continuous grinding my skills and working on my core I managed to successfully max out my learning and movement progresses and then it kept going up above 100... after a full week both were already at 1000... before they locked further progress... Such a pain... so I decided to finally try out speech it's not that I didn't wanna do that before... I just kinda never knew what to say... So when Ela came to play with me on our day off from the dungeon I just said her name... Which freaked her out profusely and then we kinda spent all her time saying words that she'd say and I'd repeat. It got weird towards the end. Then when Affie came to take me she was extremely excited to see I was saying stuff... Supposedly they already knew I was making insane progress on my growth quest. So they knew I knew what they were saying just never spoke back. So she was happy to see I was finally speaking... So happy she spent the next hour or so forcing me to call her mama repeatedly... It was extremely boring and repetitive and I preferred the weirdness that was Ela... Then came Crys' turn... Knowing I could speak she said nothing herself and just held me in her lap and pet me like usual... Weird... Like always she wears nothing but underwear bottoms and a long shirt when we aren't going out... I guess it's a kind of relaxation seeing as her armor covers every inch of her skin she likes to wear very little to relax. At least that's my guess. Either way she's just weirdly petting me. It's nice... Just weird... Super weird. She hasn't even really looked at me... Sti my favorite... So relaxing... While I don't always have my mana eye on I do use it whenever I'm training my mana core and that means their cloths are kinda pointless anyways seeing as they don't wear their armor around the house all three are just naked to me... Well Crys is a naked ice sculpture... and Affie is a bit blinding to look at so bright and Ela... Well since she took that bloodline three weird things happened... One she got a strange tattoo just below her stomach. Two I find it weirdly comforting to see her face or body. Three her mana became dark bluish. I don't think Affie or Crys have noticed the tattoo yet and I haven't noticed any strange interactions in relationship to the second thing... But Affie seems to have notice the third. Which made her happy but she still seemed weird about it. She congratulated Ela and was smiling but had a weird eye twitch... and kept mumbling things beneath her breath and looking at me strangly... Why does she keep doing that? Sigh...
After I got my movement to like 400% I managed to crawl about and finally managed to learn sneak...
*Sneak: Common Fetal - Becomes invisible to those with int stats lower then your agility.*
Sadly I immediately found out it's absolutely ineffective versus either of my mom's... they can't even tell I'm using it... and Ela... She seems to still be able to see me but is strangely over looking me from time to time like she could see me but her mind didn't register my presence so even if she was looking for me she didn't spot me. It helps me avoid her harassment from time to time... When I got my movement and learning to 1000 I got two more skills automatically for whatever reason...
*Genius: Common Fetal - Everything becomes easier to learn. Exp requirements to level reduced by half. Affinity for all none emotional/personality related paths raised to cap. Int and Wis stats increased by 3 times. Fundamental stat growth speed raised.*
*Agile: Common Fetal - Dexterity and agility increased by 3 times. All skills related to movement learned faster. All movement skills become easier to learn.*
Then came the skill final skill I learned after awhile that actually fused with one of my previous skills... Sword Heart... I don't know how I learned it... It's weird... But it fused with mana heart.
*Manasword Heart: Common Fetal - 10 times speed in learning magical and sword skills. Additional unknown effects.*
Which has a dumb name... But it's whatever... It did increase my skill learning speed but I've already got so many skills doing that not to mention sword specific... Sword Talent is two times while this is ten seeing as they are separate then even if it started at 1 it's 20 now... Still no clue what the additional effects are... It only took me two days to get my speech to 100 weirdly it wasn't an option to stick around and raise it to 1000 as well... I wonder how anyone could do any of them without abandoning the others outright for awhile? I wonder what skill I would have gotten for getting speech to 1000... As the quest window flashed I opened it and a pop up showed a review of how I did...
*Growth Stage 0 Complete
Progress:
Movement: 1000/100
Learning: 1000/100
Speech: 100/100
Fetal skills: 7*
*Final Results: Perfect.
Movement bonus agi and Dex + 10
Learning bonus int and Wis + 10
Speech bonus charisma + 10
Fetal skills bonus: bonuses times 7*
*Growth 1/3
Foundational Stats:
Constitution: 3
Strength: 6
Agility: 77
Dexterity: 75
Intelligence: 196
Wisdom: 198
Charisma: 78 - 780 "Temporary Baby Bonus"
Luck: 12
Time Limit: 12 years
Fetal Skills: 9*
*Movement Talent: Common Fetal - All actions that require dexterity or agility become easier to learn.*
*Mana Mind: Common Fetal - Your mind can be an extra storage of mana. Mana regeneration times 10*
That's a lot... Also wow my stats are imbalanced... I guess I need to work on my strength and constitution primarily... and luck I guess? How do I go about getting better luck? Opening the luck description it conviently tells me how to grow it during the fundamental stage... Sadly that also means it won't tell me it's use...
*Luck: Testing ones luck will cause it to grow. Based on the results.*
Not very helpful though... Luckily I found dice in my room... So there's that... After playing with them for awhile I've found one thing out... My overall luck only ever drops by one but it's multiplied by a certain amount depending on how high I can get number wise... If I'm under 6 then it's a minus one. If I get a 12 then it's time three. While anything between those two is times two. I've gotten a 2 but it didn't cost me more then 1 point... Actually it did something weirder... My charisma went up by one point... or ten with my baby bonus lol... Idk how that works... If I'm super unlucky I get more charisma? While my mana heart reduces my fatigue Affie refused to let me excersize as much as I need to... They seem to know I'm on stage one now but they can't see my progress. They said as long as I can get all my stats to 10 before my times up it's pretty good... Which is... a low bar... I do excersizes with my sword after Affie does her nightly thing... Yep happens every night now... Crys still comes in to end it but it's obvious that's she's only stopping it after a short while and not trying to prevent it anymore... After a few weeks like that Crys even did it... Granted it was while the other two were still asleep early in the morning... After that I had them both doing that morning and night. After the sword excersizes I do a bunch of other excersizes I was told to do when I inspected the other stats. For Constitution it told me to crawl around a lot till I got tired... So I did that... My excersize with that got super efficient with my mana core forming... Then came the strength excersize while the crawling does increase my strength not as fast as the constitution so I need to do little baby push ups... I'm not describing them that way that's what the system told me to do... Word for word... Little baby pushups... I basically just push my head off the ground then bring it back down while in a crawling position. At my first birthday my quest looked like this...
*Growth 1/3
Foundational Stats:
Constitution: 137
Strength: 87
Agility: 134
Dexterity: 137
Intelligence: 224
Wisdom: 213
Charisma: 168 - 1680 "Temporary Baby Bonus"
Luck: 1345
Time limit: 11 years
Fetal Skills: 12*
When my constitution hit 100 I got another skill then my luck and charisma as well... My new skills were...
*Healthy: Common Fetal - Total health times three. Health regeneration times ten.*
*Lucky: Common Fetal - Drop rate increase by 10 times. Chance of critical hit times 3*
*Silver Tongue: Common Fetal - Everything becomes easier when dealing with none player characters. No effect to player interactions.*
That night Affie insisted that I be moved to their bed. At which point I realized all three of them share a bed. Crys had some arguments but she seemed to simply care less then usual and immediately gave in.