9 Training like a madman in more ways than one
The fourth arena was about the size of a standard athletic stadium, so every lap was like a standard 400 m race. As Jack was running ten angry short green smelly kobolds were following him.
While Jack was resting, they got closer, and he completely ignored their presence until they were about ten meters away. Then he started sprinting again. He repeated this action until he was dead tired then faced them smiled and waited to be poked to death.
He repeated this action until his speed and endurance stats both reached number 5. In this arena, he was not thirsty, hungry or tired as long as he was willing to go through with the pain of death.
As he revived again and was full of energy, Jack didn't go out but started doing pushups. After working out for a while, Jack's arms began to hurt he ran out and got poked to death by the angry green kobolds.
He repeated this for a while, and his strength got upgraded and soon after even his constitution jumped a point too.
He checked his status, and it showed:
Name: Jack "Doggie" Russel
Strength: 4
Constitution:3
Endurance:5
Speed:5
Dexterity:3
Perception:7
Intelligence:9
Wisdom:9
Willpower:9
Charisma:5
Luck: ???
Jack had a smug look on his face and wanted to pat himself on his back for his genius way of exploiting this mental illness when it struck him this could all be a symptom.
He still repeated his actions. Jack added some more exercises he knew like squats, situps, lounges, and planking. Since he didn't have any weights, he put all the spears in a bundle and tried doing squats and situps with them.
It was not very pleasant however it was the best he could do in the circumstances he was in currently.
Every time he was tired he went to die. He tried to off himself at one time, but his willpower was apparently not enough. Jack justified that with that if the kobolds are a figment of imagination they can't hurt him, but he could probably hurt himself in his delusion.
So Jack just closed his eyes and ran out the door and happily endured the poking.
Name: Jack "Doggie" Russel
Strength: 6
Constitution:5
Endurance:6
Speed:5
Dexterity:4
Perception:7
Intelligence:9
Wisdom:9
Willpower:9
Charisma:5
Luck: ???
Almost all his physical stats were raised as he checked his status. He figured dexterity was more for hands and he was mainly working on strength, so it only went up by one.
The number three before for dexterity was probably also only because Jack could type really fast.
Jack thought he had enough stats and was really tired of working out mentally. It was boring, so he went out and got himself killed.
As he revived with abundant energy, Jack picked up a spear and rushed out.
"It's time to end this," he said with newly found determination.
He ran towards the bushes, and as the kobolds ran out, he ran away. As their line formation turned into a triangle formation, he turned around and rushed diagonally towards them.
As he was passing them, he poked the nearest kobold with his spear and ran away then turned around and repeated the process.
He was using the kiting method from role-playing games which was especially productive on slower opponents. Soon all the kobolds were either injured and dead. He came to the nearest one and used inspect on it.
Name: Kobold militia
Strength: 3
Constitution:2
Endurance:9
Speed:2
Dexterity:3
Perception:4
Intelligence:1
Wisdom:1
Willpower:9
Charisma:2
Luck: ???
Except for the endurance and willpower stat, nothing was extraordinary for him. Jack showed his spear once again into the kobold and finished him, then went around and checked the other live ones. They all had the same name and stats and were essentially clones of the first one. He killed all of them and then tried to use inspect on a dead body. It opened the same as before only the right side was showing an image of the creature in greyscale.
He went back to level two and used inspect on the body of the dead shadow.
Name: Kobold assassin.
Strength: 3
Constitution:2
Endurance:9
Speed:2
Dexterity:3
Perception:4
Intelligence:1
Wisdom:1
Willpower:9
Charisma:2
Luck: ???
Jack frowned. All the stats were the same. The assassin kobold was a lot faster also stronger and agiler. The stats he was seeing were saying something that was in opposition to what he experienced.
As he thought about it, the only thing that was different were the clothes. Jack remembered he took off its clothes after he killed it and they were currently in the last starting room.
He picked everything up from that room he could carry in his arms including the suit and threw it into the level five starting room.
As he went in a notification immediately popped up.
"Congratulations on passing level 4."
"Scan awarded."
"Exiting in 60 seconds."
As he looked around and the countdown was ticking, he noticed the spears had a yellow outline. He said scan in his mind and a small window popped up.
Kobold spear
Quality: low
Damage: 0-15
There was also a details button, but before he could try it, he was already back in his seat in the kitchen. His machete fell on the floor from his hand and almost impaled his foot.
As he looked at it, Jack noticed it also had a yellow outline. He said inspect in his mind, and a window opened up.
Thai Machete
Quality: Good
Damage: 10-30
It had a far better damage range, but sadly he could not bring it into his brain.
"Well there is one way I could bring it inside my brain, but it would kill me," Jack mocked himself.
Suddenly all his muscles started hurting, and he fell on the floor squirming in agony. His muscles were experiencing rapid growth, and it was hurting like they were being torn apart from the inside out.
Luckily the pain didn't last long, and it came with a notification.
"Synchronization finished."
As Jack picked himself up from the floor, he noticed his clothes were a much tighter fit.
