Chapter 38 System

An awkward silence filled the small inn room. Alice, Sally, and Vance all stared at the large bed that would indeed fit all three of them if they were to squeeze in together. But this would mean who was in the middle would be squished on both sides.

"I…. I will just sleep on the floor." Vance gave up. He was not going to risk Alice getting mad at him. So far, their relationship was quite good, and he did not want to anger the girl. At the same time, he couldn't make Sally sleep on the floor either as she was a girl. He might have been alone for the past twenty years, but that did not mean he did not have some proper manners.

Sally held her tongue. She did not wish to sleep on the floor, so she turned and looked away pretending that her princess was not glaring at her.

Alice really was glaring at Sally. She snorted then hooked her arm with Vance's and said: "I will sleep on the floor with you."

"It's fine, just share the bed with Sally." Vance would also feel bad if Alice slept on the floor, so he urged her to take the bed as well. Alice pursed her lips and nodded her head, but this did not mean she would listen!

Food was delivered to their room by the rounded belly man. He looked at Vance and the two girls and, with a big grin on his face, dropped the food off and gave Vance another thumbs up before running out of the room. Vance really wondered what was going on in that man's mind.

Everyone was currently sitting on the floor with their status windows open. "Alright. To explain things on your status menu, it is like this. HP stands for Health Points. This is how much damage you can take before you will die. MP is your Mana Points. This determines how many spells you can cast. Each spell will consume a certain amount of mana points.

"Attack Power is how much damage you can do to an enemy. Of course, this does not account for barriers or armor they might be wearing. Some of this attack power will be mitigated by many different things.

"Status Points is what is used to upgrade your attributes…." Sally raised her hand, interrupting Vance.

"So wait. From what you said earlier, each level will give us five status points. Which we can then use to upgrade our attributes so does this mean just by gaining these level things we can grow even stronger?" Sally asked. Vance had started off with a simple explanation before going into a more in depth explanation.

"Yes, so let's say you had ten status points and you had five strength. These five strength points would automatically give you fifty attack power. So if you were to use your five status points in strength to make it ten strength, you would then gain one hundred attack power. Each time you raise a status point, a part of your stats will go up by ten points.

"So strength is attack power and your physical strength, vitality is your health, intelligence is your magic power, mind is your mana….." Vance was once more cut off by Sally.

"Does agility raise everything?" Sally was confused. So far, everything that could be raised on other stats was already raised, so she did not understand what agility was used for.

"No agility is like strength. Like how strength determines how strong you are, agility does not raise one of your other stats but your speed and reflexes. Each of the attributes affects your body. Vitality will help mitigate a bit of damage but not much. You would need one hundred vitality to mitigate one damage. Intelligence will make you smarter but only after every one hundred intelligence will you gain a better understanding of things. Mind is like strength, while it raises mana, it also highly raises your ability to block mind altering attacks. At a high level, not even illusions will work on you. Strength, mind, and agility all fall under the immediate effects category, while vitality and intelligence fall under the gradual effect category.

"This may all seem confusing at first but trust me when I say that when you are over level one hundred, all these things will really come into play," Vance explained the best that he could. Sally sat there and pondered while Alice only smiled and swayed back and forth. She found this all very exciting.

"Skill points are something different and will come into play later on. I am guessing you all already have many skills on your status menu?" Vance asked. The girls all nodded their heads. "Then, when choosing skills, try to get ones that either upgrade your current skill set or will complement them. Skill points are only gained 1 per level, so they are very precious. Of course, I will also help you learn other skills that will allow you to save on skill points, but I will need to know the skill first, and if I know it, I can try to teach it to you. It will then be up to you to understand it. Any questions?"

"No, this is a lot to take in, so I will need to ponder over anything. If I need help, I will ask." Sally stood up and walked towards the bathroom. "I will bathe first. Pri-Alice, do you want to join?"

"Ah? Alright." Alice nodded. She hadn't had a bath with Sally for a while, so she got up and went to follow Sally but stopped before she turned around, walked to stand in front of Vance, leaned down, and kissed Vance on the lips. "We will be back."

Vance sighed and nodded his head. He watched as Alice ran off to the bathroom. Vance had no idea how this team would pan out. He never fought with Sally. He did know that he and Alice made quite a good team, so he hoped with the addition of Sally, things would go much smoother.

Inside the bathroom, two girls stood, their pale white skin reflecting under the lights powered by magic. Alice's modest breasts were upright and perky, while Sally's breasts bounced ever so slightly as she moved around. "Pri-Alice, what do you think about this system thing?"

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