Chapter 38 – Skill Evolution Thoughts

Chapter 38 – Skill Evolution Thoughts

“Welcome home, sweetie!” Brenda greeted her son, the moment he closed the door behind him. She emerged from her part of the house and looked him up and down. “How are you?”

“Great!” he responded truthfully.

“You look like it... you look really healthy. Going outside gave you a bit of colour.” She nodded a few times to herself.

John had gotten the slightest bit of a tan, but what she was noticing was certainly everything the increased Stats had done to him. It must have been just mild enough not to trigger any alarm bells with her or Gaia was preventing her from doing so.

“Hope it was fun? Did you hang out with that girl some more?” Brenda asked.

“G-girlfriend,” John corrected and his mom happily clapped her hands together. “We finally got together today.”

“Oh my, I’m proud of you! Just make sure you don’t take the rose-tinted glasses for granted, alright sweetie?” she walked over and gave his chin a motherly pinch. “It's easy to fall in and out of love when you’re young, so think a lot about what you see in her, alright? And bring her over sometime soon!”



‘My choices are Masturbation, Possession, Sneaking and Mana Power Attack,’ he listed to himself.

Sneaking was out immediately. He had not used it at all over the last few days and his Stat choices had not moved in the sneaky direction. This was likely going to be a dead Skill he just had lying around.

Masturbation should be out immediately, but there was a greater than 0 chance it could upgrade into something that made him even better at sex. Not a pressing issue and Rave seemed pretty satisfied with what he was doing to her, so he put that aside after considering it for a second. Maybe once he had his combat build more figured out. He couldn’t have sex if he was dead.

The choice really came down to Possession and Mana Power Attack. Both were the backbone of his strategies.

Mana Power Attack certifiably sucked. Possession was pretty useful even in its current state. Problem was that he had no idea what the SEP would do exactly. Would it upgrade an aspect of the Skill or just create a better one? Would it tag on a new effect? Why was there no tooltip explaining this?

The computer was booted up now and called distractingly with the whirls of its fan. John, however, resolved not to let decision paralysis immobilize him for a week again. He would make a choice before he started gaming.