Chapter 28: Manners maketh man

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"Manners maketh man."

Word Count 1504

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"Even without looking at my stats right now, I can roughly gauge my growth rate over the years," I smiled to myself.

But then I frowned afterward. " In the last 3 years, I felt as if my development had plateaued somehow."

I had no definite and guaranteed way of leveling up like a LitRPG main character or simply a gamer, so I now had to fend for myself in terms of personal strength.

Weapons and tech, I had an overabundance of them.

I didn't lack the ability to bomb down a country into smithereens.

"All in all, at the end of the day even though weapons and advanced technological inventions are part of my overall capabilities, they are supposed to be at least complimented by the necessary strength of their wielder."

I was greedy, heck, anyone would want to revel in the feeling of growing stronger and later on, punch a hole through the fabric of reality or something.

Give a man power and you will know his true colors but I was already someone who had the potential to amass power in different ways.

"My earlier strength development had been exponential but now… hehe, is this what they call a bottleneck?" I chuckled.

"Supergrowth, leveling up while sleeping and idling, a personal reality with a time dilation of 10000:1, 100 push-ups, not doing anything but your words and thoughts can grant an enemy instant death without breaking a sweat, pummeling an enemy to death in order to get a multiplier of loot…" I sighed helplessly when thinking about those cheating bastards of main characters that only need one year to send a cosmos flying.

"Anyway, I am not them." I decided to refocus on what I was about to do.

"Eh, knock knock, System-chan," I said playfully.

[Who is there?]

"Gotcha."

[What do you want now?]

"Gosh, why are you pretending to be stupid?"

[I am not your muscled brain]

"Okay, whatever."

"It seems you don't take greetings well, my dear. Show me my status and total gains then," I pretended to be sad while comfortably supporting my head behind one of my arms.

[Affirmative.] The system AI replied in its usual, emotionless, and mechanical voice.

Sounds like a bitchy Quintessa.

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[Status]

Name: [Kal El]

Height: 6'4"

Weight: 220lbs

Title: [Mad Scientist] [Humanity's Greatest Sinner] [One With the Binary] [Nerd] [Genius Inventor] [The Thinker] [Battle Maniac] [Gym Rat] [Butcher] [Crazy bastard] [Oh sexy]

[Stat Attributes]

Strength: 4.9

Speed: 4.6

Defense: 4.7

Intelligence: 4.8

[Resources Points: 25]

[Unallocated Stat Points: 0]

Unique abilities:- [Superhuman Intelligence] [Superhuman Strength] [Superhuman Speed] [Super Defense] [Minor telekinesis] [Super Vision] [Enhanced Hearing] [Photographic memory] [Increased Synaptic Activity] [Regeneration] [Enhanced Regeneration]

[Inventory]:

•45MW.TRG Dominator

•Bat rang

•John Wick's Heckler & Koch P30L fitted with a custom compensator

•Electro Chromatic Blanket

•Alita Battle Angel Damascus Blade

•Mark I Iron Man Suit

•Beretta 92FS Inox Pistol

•Memory Scanner

•Concussor

•M41A Pulse Rifle

•Black Suit

•Kaiju Corpse (Knifehead)

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"25 Resources Points. Not bad." I nodded to myself.

"It's enough for me to draw some good stuff and tons of useless trash."

I hummed softly while preparing myself to tango with the lottery.

"I will not use all of them at once since they are too much for now. It's better to save a little bit, maybe it would surprise me later on. You never know."

"Yo System-chan, use fifteen of them. Got that?" I communicated my intentions.

[Okay.]

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[Deducting 15 RPs…]

[15 RPs consumed!]

[Drawing the Lottery…]

[Congratulations, you have been rewarded with the following gifts to your inventory:

-Sonic Gun (Minority Report)

-Ordinary Light Saber (Star Wars Franchise)

-Regressive Baby Powder

-Holo Viewer (Ben 10 Omniverse)

-Inhibitor Collars (DC)

-Stun Grenade (Modern Combat)

-Hover Car Prototype (Total Recall)

-A modified Umbrella (Kingsman: Secret Service)

-Gloves (Mission Impossible)

-Bubble Gum (Henry Danger)

-SMG-Spectre (Valorant)

-Hover Car (Jimmy Neutron)

-Morita Carbine (Starship Troopers)

-Blaster Cannon (Independence Day)

-500 Pounds of Adamantium (Marvel)

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"Phew, thanks to the deities," I exhaled the breath that I had been holding back before springing up and sitting cross-legged.

"I am not disappointed. Two redundant rewards while some are of totally no value."

"And there are some that I can't find any information about from the deep memories of my mind."

"I am totally clueless about them," I analyzed carefully.

"Ah, that's the system's job anyway."

"Hmm, let's look at the regressive baby powder, first. Does it reincarnate you or regress you like the Manhwa main characters?"

"Let's see."

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[Regressive Baby Powder]

Wanna turn into a toddler so badly? Mix this 'special' baby powder with your drink and your dreams will come true.

It's a defective product that was created by an unknown scientist to make his Grandma youthful but instead turned her into a toddler.

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"That's… just so sad. This thing is evil."

And I was definitely going to look into it when I had some time.

Just imagining that instead of poison to kill your enemy, you use the [Regressive Baby Powder] to turn them into a baby instead. That fuck is humiliating.

It will be awkward to see a talking boss baby barking expletives everywhere. I guess no one would want to be turned into a baby, that is when the recognized concept of reincarnation isn't part of the deal.

I cackled evilly. "Good for revenge."

But I doubted if it could work on superhumans or gods alike.

I then shifted my attention to another item.

"Huh? Valorant? That sounds like a video game or something."

"I may have known about it somewhere in my past life but maybe I hadn't been interested in it."

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[SMG-Spectre]

A machine gun weapon customized with a silencer from the video game 'Valorant'. It is capable of rapid shooting.

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"Has a cool design and all but its bullets and magazines are nothing impressive," I pouted in slight disappointment.

"Hehe, I can't believe we even have Jimmy Neutron's toys here. The Toon Universe again."

"The Hover Car Prototype from Total Recall movie uses a futuristic and realistic concept of magnetic levitation to move the car. But I am not exactly sure about Jimmy's toy." I mulled it over in my head.

"Next is the Morita Carbine from Starship Troopers."

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[Morita Carbine]

A cool rifle used to shoot down alien bugs?

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"Ah, I now remember that movie," I raised my voice in realization after little pieces of the memory about the movie started to return in my mind.

"Starship Troopers, huh? What an old movie." After all, it was from the nineties. But still, the gun looked cool. The kind you would want to flash on your enemy while spitting out a wonderful one-liner.

"As for Inhibitor Collars makes me think about Amanda Waller, the bitch playing dangerous games with metahumans."

I have watched a lot of DC-related creations from animations to movie series.

"The type of collars that metas wouldn't want to find their necks in."

Maybe John Constantine can escape from it?

Hell, I wasn't sure about the deal with that bastard.

"LightSaber? Who doesn't know Star Wars even if one isn't deep into the lore? Who didn't know about the force? Who didn't know about the Jedi? Who didn't-"

"I think that's enough." I stopped myself before taking a deep breath and randomly looked at the next reward.

"Independence Day, hmm? The Harvester Mothership would have been nice though or something along the lines of Ender's Little Doctor."

I then smiled widely when I saw the Umbrella from Kingsman: Secret Service.

"Although it's useless… Spy items really make someone feel powerful."

Just imagine walking with an umbrella and no one knows what sort of terror it's hiding. Only for you to surprise your enemies with a wonderful unfurling of the umbrella and a cool line like 'surprise motherfuckers!'.

"It would be simply hilarious," I laughed while playing different scenarios in my mind.

"Hmm… Bubble gum. I am gonna chew that one into oblivion." Trash.

I had no use for such items from Henry Danger Universe unless it was the machine that made Captain… 'indestructible' a concept that was quite vague in itself.

"I don't care about "Minority Report" or whatever but sound-based weapons are appreciated."

The sonic gun's design was smooth and sleek.

"And that marks the end of the list," I yawned while completely ignoring the item from 'Mission Impossible.'

I then allowed my body to return to its initial position, then again, ignoring the most 'beautiful' reward of the night.

"I have seen the heavens beyond heavens and mountains beyond mountains. The Dao is limitless and I should set my horizons far beyond the limits of the skies," I convinced myself seriously while inside my mind, I was quite the toddler jumping around with arms raised like Gojo Satori.

"Good night, System-chan."

And then I allowed myself to sleep with a shit-eating grin on my face.

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Author's Note: I jus wanted to show his stats after so many years, tis not [Word Count]-intended, I swear. Not guilty.