Time Skip

*Sigh*

Yep, I'm definitely not human anymore. How do I know this, you may be wondering. Well, I'm fairly certain that humans can't have staring contests with the eyes on their feet while lying on their stomachs. Hah, I blinked. Wait, is that a win or a loss? Oh well.

Right, I should probably explain.

So, right now I am sitting in my bedroom in the orphanage, still can't be bothered to remember the name of the place. I am currently 11 and it's my birthday in a couple of weeks, so if I'm remembering Harry Potter canon properly then I should be getting a letter from Hogwarts fairly soon.

I've spent the past 5 years grinding up skills and levels within the Zombie instance. I Haven't entered the other instance I unlocked because even though the smaller zombies no longer provided experience after a point the boss zombie still did. On top of that, the zombie instance was great for levelling up my poison resistance and Electrokinesis skills.

I am currently level 76 with 300 stat points to spend, and all of my stats have reached a base of 100. My luck is at 151 thanks to my gambler class. If I recall correctly the next barrier to receive a skill from stats is 250, for my INT and WIS I received The Eldritch Tongue only after both had reached 100. I'll admit I'm curious about the skill that comes next. Splitting my 300 stat points between both INT and WIS I feel a large increase in my mental abilities.

[SKILLS FUSED] The Eldritch Tongue, Parselmouth, French, Bulgarian...

[NEW SKILL] Omnilinguist(MAX)-[Passive]

Capable of speaking all languages, including those that do not exist. When encountering an unknown language it will be rapidly mentally translated until the user is fluent in the language. Certain languages can enhance the casting of specific, spoken word spells.

Wow. Did not expect that. I mean, I spent some time using my occulmancy to help learn a couple of languages that I no would crop of in canon, The Triwizard Cup. This is going to be usef- AHH FUCK That Hurts. Y'know how I said I can hear voices that I'm pretty sure belonged to eldritch being, well turns out there are dialects to a language that doesn't exist and I just had all of them forced into my head as a result of hearing them from the voices. Note to self, do not go somewhere where 100's of languages you do not know can be seen at once.

Anyway, since my other stats reached 100 I received new skills for each of them. Thankfully none of them had requirements for other stats, but some of the skills I've gained are interesting, to say the least.

First off, Vitality. When this reached 100 I gained the skill 'Minor Regeneration' it allowed me to heal from small cuts and scrapes quickly. Typically, Gamers Body would stop me from receiving actual wounds, but maybe because I'm in Harry Potter, not The Gamer, small wounds and scratches can appear and they cause a bleeding effect that normally only deals 1 maybe 2 Hitpoints of damage before ending. I put a lot of effort into grinding this skill and currently it is at level 11 of its evolved form 'Regeneration' which allows me to quickly recover from broken bones, which functions as a long-lasting debuff, and provides a passive hitpoint regeneration equal to the skills level every second.

Next up, Strength. The skill I received from this is useful to be sure, but it seems as though it should be linked to Vitality instead. Maybe it will evolve when STR reaches 250 into something that is more linked to Strength. Anyway, the skill is called 'Breathless Lungs'. I no longer need to breathe. My lungs are now a mostly useless organ, like the appendix. As perhaps a side benefit of this none of my organs or muscles require oxygen to function anymore, meaning no build-up of lactic acids and whatnot. Again, I'm pretty sure Gamer's Body should take care of that but maybe it doesn't for me. Who knows? Because my lungs are useless now I decided to fill them with sand, this might seem weird to you but it is so that I can, instead of wasting a hand to throw sand into a foe's eyes just cough it up. Also, as a last resort if I run out of mana to produce more Playing Cards I have a single card stored in each lung as a last resort as summoning an already produced card doesn't cost mana.

Finally, Dexterity. This is the skill that lets me stare at my feet with ease while lying on my stomach. I'm fairly certain it is influenced by my Eldritch Mind. It is called Puppets Physique, and it means that I am far more flexible than any human contortionist could ever hope to be. I can bend my bones, which is something I quickly found the limits off to practice 'Regeneration' and am functionally infinitely jointed with the ability to bend my joints in any way I please as though they are on a ball joint. I can also rotate my joints and limbs a full 360 degrees but anything that would kill a standard human to do instead causes a small amount of health damage before recovering. I can spin my head around like a spinning top, its fun but dizzying.

So, onto the results of my training. My 'Poison Resistance' evolved into 'Greater Poison Resistance' after I spent a lot of time letting myself get gnawed on by zombies, it also helped 'Minor Regeneration'. Eventually, in order to level it up, I had to start eating the rotting meat of the undead but currently, I am immune to minor poisons, highly resistant to 'standard' poisons and somewhat resistant to greater poisons. I'm fairly certain Basilisk Venom will count as a greater poison so I still have a lot of grinding to do there. On the up?side though alcohol counts as a minor poison so I'll never get drunk. Yay?

Something I wasn't aware of, it turns out if you get a skill book for a skill you already possess it provides a chunk of experience for that skill to help it level up. Since most of my grinding was done on the huge zombie boss, I have received a lot of Electrokinesis books and currently, my skill is at level 71. I've been able to functionally produce a railgun using it with either a coin or one of my playing cards. The cards get a bonus from my 'Knife Mastery' skill so they do a lot more damage. I've also been working on channelling electricity into the cards to use electromagnetism as part of throwing it, to produce curves in flight or making them seem to home in on a target, I haven't made much progress on that though.

Spent a lot of time using my 'Knives' and managed to reach level 52 in 'Knife Mastery' So that's good news.

Now onto something I delayed mentioning. My unique Skill. 'Eldritch Mind of Madness'. It reached level 20 and as a result gained a new subskill, which started at level 20. It's the reason I'm certain I'm not human anymore. It is called 'Eldritch Form', it makes it so that my body is constantly shifting between eldritch and mundane allowing slight shifts and variations each time. In simple terms I can shapeshift, so far I'm limited to maintaining a humanoid form, but maybe as the skill grows that won't always be the case. It also allows the growth of extra limbs and body parts but so far that is limited to growing extra eyes anywhere I'd like on my body. I'm certain it is because of the 'Eyes of The Spiral' skill. Maybe as my 'Eldritch Mind of Madness' grows I'll be able to reproduce and grow other body parts through 'Eldritch Form'.

Speaking of 'Eyes of The Spiral'. When it reached level 20 alongside 'Eldritch Mind of Madness' it gained an additional effect. If the eyes are active with mana channelled through them then any other ocular effect trying to impact me has reduced effects. I'm pretty sure I could find the Basilisk right now and as long as my eyes were active I wouldn't die just be petrified. Then I would be Eaten.

Aside from skill growth, I've also had some minor social growth. I've been a bit more social and less outright aggressive towards the other people in the orphanage, this is mostly because whoever is sent by Hogwarts to help me purchase school supplies, will probably ask the nuns how I act, and if they all say I'm anti-social and never talk to anyone then I'll be pegged as the next dark lord. That would be inconvenient when all I'm trying to do is live my life.

The whole orphanage went on a holiday a couple of years ago and I wasn't monitored super aggressively like I'd be the cause of all the problems. So I think I made good progress on the whole not seeming like the next Voldie. Still don't know anyone's name here though.

Funny thing while we were on holiday. Turns out I don't appear in photography. It might be a result of the unique skill since I didn't have 'Eldritch Form' back then, but yeah whenever a picture of me is taken I just seem like a vaguely humanoid blur. No real details about me can be identified from the pictures. It's like someone put a blur tool on me and me alone. Also, the colours of pictures of me always come out slightly off. Like parts have had their saturation turned up and others seem almost greyscale. Still, that will be useful in years to come as London gets more and more security cameras.