Training montage! (Part 1)
Unaware of the torture... I mean girl talk that Zoey endured.
Evan was putting his plan into motion. Going out with his remaining 200 dollars and grabbing a few 25 dollar scratch tickets that reward up to 750k each, he uses his uncanny luck skill to the maximum to see how well he does.
His results nearly make him faint. He earned 50k from one, another 20k to 40k from the others. And one of them rewarded him 150k.
He faints for a solid minute before gathering up all 8 tickets and heading to the lotto redemption center.
He makes the clerk faint from it too and tells him the strategy of his friends and him all pooling their winning tickets is working. The worker mutters how he and his friends will have to do that as well in the future is heard as he cashes in the now grand total of 342k after the 38k tax right into his account from the lotto ticket association.
Evan is grinning from ear to ear at this and looks into either buying new skills or upgrading his existing ones.
Name: Evan McLean
Race: Super Human
Level: 20
HP: 400/400
MP: Locked
Ki: 80/80
Str: 45 (+39)
Agi: 48 (+31)
End: 48 (+43)
Int: 56 (+15)
Sense: 50 (+27)
Skills:
Uncanny luck: Boosted luck that makes you seem like the luckiest guy in the world
Martial Prodigy 2: For each martial art you learn you gain bonuses to your stats based on each style and their rank. And you have the skill to match. Each rank in the martial art is equal to 2 years of training in them.
Goto ryu Karate III: +6 to str and end
Muay Thai III: +6 to str and end
Kick Boxing III: +6 to str and end
Tiger fist rank IV: +8 to str and end
Jujitsu rank IV: +8 to agi and sense
Dragon fist rank IV: +4 to all stats
Tae Kwon do rank II: +4 to agi and str
Jeet Kune Do Rank V: +5 to all stats
Wrestling rank I: +2 to str and sense
Frank Dux Karate II: +4 to str and agi
Ki Initiate (Rank II ki user): Gain ability to empower yourself with ki. 1 ki point add +1 to strength or endurance. Any amount of ki used only stays for 2 minutes at a time until more ki mastery is gained
Tough stuff II: Your body grows healthier and is now tougher +8 to end, +10 to HP per level
Healing factor II: Regenerate 4 HP per minute, recover from exhaustion 20% faster
Learning Prodigy V: You are now able to learn things both body and mind related much faster! Your body is now at the super human level of adaptation! X10 learning speed.
Visual Learner Rank I: Using your higher than average intelligence and reflexes as a fighter you can copy any movement you see and recreate it using your own body. You will need to practice it to make it natural. But you will not forget the action easily. If you don't perform the action within 8 hours of seeing it you will lose the action and have to rewatch it being used to remember.
Gymnast II: Your body is way more flexible now! And you are more aware of your space, +4 agi and sense
Strategist II: +6 to int from thinking fast and better now!
Enhanced Reflexes II: React faster! +4 agi and sense
Enhanced Human Physique: Stat limit of all stats has risen from 100 to 200!
Super Human physique: Stat limit of all stats has rise from 200 to 400!
Evan begins to apply his money here. He limits himself to only spending 250k so he can save back the remaining 92k for savings and other needs. Like taxes and his membership services like the room and cafe he gets.
He begins to purchase all kinds of skill upgrades to help him learn and grow.
He upgrades his long ignored rank 2 skills. And begins to upgrade every single one of them.
After upgrading all rank 2 skills to rank 3 he was still left with 226k. He begins to hum as he is sitting at his computer desk and thinking about what new skills he should purchase or which existing ones he should upgrade. He thinks it over and even looks up gaming websites from popular mmorpgs with chat forums to see who can give him good insight into making a powerful monk character.
Many agree about the toughness skill, ki skill, learning boost skills, and the martial art skills.
However a few outliers say that those are for basic builds. These outliers catch Evans attention and he makes sure to listen to them.
They begins to discuss the pros and cons of a basic build that stays there. Just as a well balanced and basic build. While that is good for early and mid game. Once you reach higher level enemies and dungeons your balanced build simply helps you last a long time. It lacks a distinctive key move or a proper way to end a fight.
Evan thinks on it and realizes they are right. His move set is just that. Balanced. And while he likes it like that and enjoys the feeling of his body growing he realizes that he hasn't expanded beyond martial arts. He doesn't know how to wield a sword. He doesn't know how to code or program. He doesn't know anything beyond his combat abilities.
If he has such an ability his imagination is limited and has been limiting itself since he got his power.
He knew he needed to expand. But that should be for later. For now he should focus on the tournament and growing to match his future foes.
Now knowing what he has plans for he goes into the skill board to listen to two of the outliers that made a lot of sense to him.
He browses the skills until he finds the two rank 1 skills he really needs now.
Thicker skin rank I: Toughen your skin passively to make it harder to damage. Current rank = Cow hide +5% physical dmg reduction.
Evan feels his skin and while it doesn't feel thicker or look thicker he tries to use a basic pocket knife and finds that while it still cuts. The cut is definitely smaller now and not as deep.
He lets his passive healing skill take over and heal the cut up in just a minute. Then grins as he buys the second recommendation.
He gains sixth sense.
Sixth Sense rank I: Gain the ability to perceive your surroundings without using your eyes or ears. You can detect bloodlust or intent up to 10ft away from you with a 30% chance to know what their intent is.
He grins at this and knows it will be helpful in the ring and outside the ring too.
He upgrades them both to rank 3 and looks at his stats as his money goes down to 212k.
Then a thought hits him. He grabs two more skills that will definitely help him in the arena and in his training. Especially once they are both upgraded to rank 3.
Enhanced muscles and Smarty pants. Both do wonders for his flailing stats. His money sits pretty at 198k left from those two purchases and the upgrades.
Name: Evan McLean
Race: Super Human
Level: 20
HP: 500/500
MP: Locked
Ki: 100/100
Str: 45 (+48)
Agi: 48 (+35)
End: 48 (+48)
Int: 56 (+27)
Sense: 50 (+31)
Skills:
Uncanny luck: Boosted luck that makes you seem like the luckiest guy in the world
Martial Prodigy 2: For each martial art you learn you gain bonuses to your stats based on each style and their rank. And you have the skill to match. Each rank in the martial art is equal to 2 years of training in them.
Goto ryu Karate III: +6 to str and end
Muay Thai III: +6 to str and end
Kick Boxing III: +6 to str and end
Tiger fist rank IV: +8 to str and end
Jujitsu rank IV: +8 to agi and sense
Dragon fist rank IV: +4 to all stats
Tae Kwon do rank II: +4 to agi and str
Jeet Kune Do Rank V: +5 to all stats
Wrestling rank I: +2 to str and sense
Frank Dux Karate II: +4 to str and agi
Ki Initiate (Rank III ki user): Gain ability to empower yourself with ki. 1 ki point add +1 to strength or endurance. Any amount of ki used only stays for 3 minutes at a time until more ki mastery is gained
Tough stuff III: Your body grows healthier and is now tougher +12 to end, +15 to HP per level
Healing factor III: Regenerate 6 HP per minute, recover from exhaustion 25% faster
Learning Prodigy V: You are now able to learn things both body and mind related much faster! Your body is now at the super human level of adaptation! X10 learning speed.
Visual Learner Rank I: Using your higher than average intelligence and reflexes as a fighter you can copy any movement you see and recreate it using your own body. You will need to practice it to make it natural. But you will not forget the action easily. If you don't perform the action within 8 hours of seeing it you will lose the action and have to rewatch it being used to remember.
Gymnast III: Your body is way more flexible now! And you are more aware of your space, +6 agi and sense
Strategist III: +9 to int from thinking fast and better now!
Enhanced Reflexes III: React faster! +6 agi and sense
Sixth Sense rank III: Gain the ability to perceive your surroundings without using your eyes or ears. You can detect bloodlust or intent up to 30ft away from you with a 40% chance to know what their intent is.
Thicker skin rank III: Toughen your skin passively to make it harder to damage. Current rank = Honey Badger hide +15% physical dmg reduction.
Enhanced muscles rank III: Your muscles have improved in tensile strength! Now they can generate more power and last longer! +9 to str.
Smarty Pants rank III: Pure mind muscle awaits you! Gain better memorization and faster thought processes! Even better usage of actions like multitasking or multithinking! +9 to int.
Enhanced Human Physique: Stat limit of all stats has risen from 100 to 200!
Super Human physique: Stat limit of all stats has rise from 200 to 400!
Evan can't help but lay back in bed at these results. His stats were all approaching 100 with bonuses and his build was improving. Now he had to think about what other skills he can gain to aid in his growth. And development. He can also think about everyday skills that could aid him in doing tasks like cleaning. Programming for a job for retirement from the ring. Even longevity skills as long as he had to money for them! He just needed to survive the tournament. Become champion and the money will roll in for whatever he needs in the future!
Wow... he did become smarter.
Evan shakes his head of the thoughts then with his new buffer brains he realizes that he can push a bit further now since he still shockingly has over 100k remaining.
He goes to his skills and decides he needs to get used to his new skills and apply them to his body. But his mind begins to think over the possibilities of using his remaining budget for going to rank 4 in his stats. He decides to think it over during a martial arts program.
He puts on an anime called Kengan Ashura to enjoy the fight scenes and incorporate the move sets to his martial arts skill set and the resulting boost it would give him.
During the slow scenes where the characters just talk he thinks over his stats more. 'Yeah rank 4 is powerful. Nothing too overwhelming but it will help me out in the long run. Especially with Hyos warning.'
Evan thinks about how they might target him. Then he gasps as he thinks to Zara, Miu, Zoey, Thomas, and Derrick. All his friends and all people he can't risk losing. He makes a decision there and then.
He pauses the anime before it got to its next big fight and began to buy all upgrades to Rank 4 draining his money quickly while also buying a new ki skill to help himself and any of his friends should they need help in the future.
Name: Evan McLean
Race: Super Human
Level: 20
HP: 600/600
MP: Locked
Ki: 120/120
Str: 45 (+51)
Agi: 48 (+39)
End: 48 (+52)
Int: 56 (+33)
Sense: 50 (+35)
Skills:
Uncanny luck: Boosted luck that makes you seem like the luckiest guy in the world
Martial Prodigy 2: For each martial art you learn you gain bonuses to your stats based on each style and their rank. And you have the skill to match. Each rank in the martial art is equal to 2 years of training in them.
Goto ryu Karate III: +6 to str and end
Muay Thai III: +6 to str and end
Kick Boxing III: +6 to str and end
Tiger fist rank IV: +8 to str and end
Jujitsu rank IV: +8 to agi and sense
Dragon fist rank IV: +4 to all stats
Tae Kwon do rank II: +4 to agi and str
Jeet Kune Do Rank V: +5 to all stats
Wrestling rank I: +2 to str and sense
Frank Dux Karate II: +4 to str and agi
Ki Intermediate user (Rank IV ki user): Gain ability to empower yourself with ki. 1 ki point add +2 to strength or endurance. Any amount of ki used only stays for 4 minutes at a time until more ki mastery is gained.
Ki healing rank IV: Heal an ally of any mid ranked disease for 10 ki points or 50 HP over 2 minutes for 25 ki points, can be used to help regrow fingers or other small missing parts of the body.
Tough stuff IV: Your body grows healthier and is now tougher +16 to end, +20 to HP per level
Healing factor IV: Regenerate 8 HP per minute, recover from exhaustion 30% faster
Learning Prodigy V: You are now able to learn things both body and mind related much faster! Your body is now at the super human level of adaptation! X10 learning speed.
Visual Learner Rank V: Using your higher than average intelligence and reflexes as a fighter you can copy any movement you see and recreate it using your own body. You will need to practice it to make it natural. But you will not forget the action easily. If you don't perform the action within 16 hours of seeing it you will lose the action and have to rewatch it being used to remember.
Gymnast IV: Your body is way more flexible now! And you are more aware of your space, +8 agi and sense
Strategist IV: +12 to int from thinking fast and better now!
Enhanced Reflexes IV: React faster! +8 agi and sense
Sixth Sense rank IV: Gain the ability to perceive your surroundings without using your eyes or ears. You can detect bloodlust or intent up to 40ft away from you with a 45% chance to know what their intent is.
Thicker skin rank IV: Toughen your skin passively to make it harder to damage. Current rank = Whale Shark hide +20% physical dmg reduction.
Enhanced muscles rank IV: Your muscles have improved in tensile strength! Now they can generate more power and last longer! 12 to str.
Smarty Pants rank IV: Pure mind muscle awaits you! Gain better memorization and faster thought processes! Even better usage of actions like multitasking or multithinking! +12 to int.
Enhanced Human Physique: Stat limit of all stats has risen from 100 to 200!
Super Human physique: Stat limit of all stats has rise from 200 to 400!
Evan wipes some sweat off his brow from all of that upgrading and puts away his remaining 72k of his lotto money into his savings with the 92k from earlier.
He grins at his stats and flexes and stretches his body out. He feels the difference and sees how he can almost go to 180 degree split. Still a few degrees off but he is doing well on getting all the way there.
He prepares to binge the rest of the show and goes to write down key techniques or training he can use to progress over the next three weeks to prepare for the tournament.
He looks at his savings account now being a healthy 164k should he need any emergency skills or if he needs to purchase something large.
Evan readies his notes and makes sure to progress as much as he can over the next few weeks for making sure they win the local rounds.
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