บท 11: Synchronized Level Up

Alvin suddenly felt energy that he couldn't see drilling into his body. He felt his physical strength, Agility, physique and soul strength increasing slowly. Because this was the first time he had leveled up, he closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of all his base attributes increase.

At this time, Alvin whose body was exhausted was suddenly filled with abundant strength. He felt that he had recovered at least 50% of his stamina and HP. At this time, Alvin had pulled himself from under the Silver Tailed Leopard's body. He clenched his fist and felt the abundant strength that now existed in his body!

Alvin was really surprised. Just a point increase in all attributes made such a difference. If this kind of strength was fed back to his real body, what kind of strength would he possess? Alvin begun to look forward to the changes that this game could bring to his strength in real life.

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At the same time that Alvin leveled up and increased all his attributes in the game, something strange was happening to his real body which was lying in his couch in his room. His skin began to glow a light blue light which was causing a reaction with his surroundings. Energy in the atmosphere, which could not be perceived with the naked eye was being inspired by this light and pulled into Alvin's body. The energy that was absorbed began to move rapidly within Alvin's body gradually transforming and strengthening it.

During this Strengthening process, impurities that existed in Alvin's weak body was being expelled gradually. As the blue glow continued to inspire more and more energy into Alvin's body, his internal parts like veins, tendons, arteries were being continuously refined, becoming at least twice as strong as before.

His body was like a hungry and starved wild beast. All of his cells were thirsty for more strength. Constantly engulfing all the energy, transforming himself. This absorption and transformation process lasted a few seconds and finally stopped. The glowing blue light on his skin also slowly disappeared back into Alvin's body!

After the blue glow disappeared, his whole body was covered in a black sticky and smelly substance. This was the impurities that were expelled from his body. Even though this substance was very smelly, Alvin still had a smile on his face because he was not aware of the changes that had occurred in his body.

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Back in the game, the upgrade had also completed. Alvin looked at his four free attribute points and added 1 point to strength, 2 points to Agility and 1 point to Vitality!

Immediately after he added these attributes, the feeling of strengthening returned again. This feeling also lasted for a few seconds.

With a thought, his attribute panel appeared,

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Name: Monkey D. Arnold

Age: 16

Level: 1 (135/200)

Unallocated Attribute Points: 0

Sword Talent: SS+

Fate Energy: 0/100

Strength: 12

Agility: 13

Vitality: 13

Soul (Spirit): 21

Stamina: 85/170([21*10]/2) + ([13*10]/2)

Health: 60/130(13*10)

Skills:

Gathering Skill: Helps gather materials and drops from kills of player.

Investigate: collects information about opponents who are not five levels higher than player.

Battle Skills:

Force Fist (Initial - 10/10) – Effects (exerts 5 % extra explosive fist force)

Basic Sword Arts (Initial Stage – 100/100) – Effects (Improves attack speed, attack power and movement speed by 20%)

Pursuing winds Intermediate Sword Arts (Uninitiated) – Effects (None)

Basic Marksmanship (Advanced Stage - 70/150) - Effects (Increase accuracy, attack range and attack power by 50%)

[Skill Levels: Initial, Intermediate, Advanced, Peak]

System Backpack- Adjustable weights (4), sea pebbles (14)

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Alvin looked at his new attributes after his level up and smiled in satisfaction. He had his reasons for choosing to add more points to agility attribute instead of strength. During the practice of the [Basic Sword Arts], he noticed that this sword art has an auxiliary role of training his physique, strength and most of all, strength control.

In addition to this basic sword arts, he also has a couple of techniques in his memory that focus on physique and strength development. Because of these, in this world, it would be much easier to develop his strength and physique than his agility.

Therefore, if he doesn't add more points to his agility attributes now, his attributes will be very unbalanced in the future.

Also, unlike most swordsmen in this world who are biased towards strength type sword techniques, he favors the speed type more. Alvin believes that having strong attack power without the accompanying speed is quite useless. if he focuses on developing only his strength now, in the future, if he encounters speed type opponents, he'll be in trouble.

therefore, even though Alvin is more predisposed to developing his speed, he still wants to have relatively balanced attributes.

As he develops his strength through the various exercises in his memory, he will also try as much as possible to develop is agility. Now, from what he just saw, the increase in vitality and soul has also increased his stamina and HP! This would ensure that he would have longer practice time as well be able to use more and stronger skills.

According to the information he has on the[Basic sword Arts], to be able to practice the Intermediate level stances, the minimum stamina required is 200! So he was very determined to reach this threshold as soon as possible. Now he is very confident that the Blood patterned mushroom will help him reach this goal.

Alvin looked at the corpse of the Silver Tailed Leopard in front of him and placed his hands on it. He immediately activated his gathering skill.

[Ding! Collected 4 pieces of Silver Tailed Leopard meat! NOTE: Cooked Silver Tailed Leopard meat can restore 80 points of stamina. It also permanently increases Agility point by 0.5 points per piece.]

[Ding! Collected 2 pieces of Silver Tailed Leopard Liver! NOTE: Cooked Silver Tailed Leopard liver can restore 30 points of HP per piece. It also permanently increases Vitality point by 0.5 points per piece.]

After trying few more times, he didn't receive any more rewards but he was quite surprised by the effects of the Silver Tailed Leopard meat and liver. they could permanently increase his agility and vitality attributes. Even though he knew that the meat of ferocious beasts in the One Piece world had very high nutritional value, this is the first time he had witnessed such an effect. Alvin didn't know whether this was an actual effect of the meat or a reward from the system.

"It seems I have to be more careful when searching around this forest. Maybe, I could find rare medicines and beasts that have such an effect" Alvin thought as he walked towards the Blood patterned mushroom.

The reason why it is given such a name is because it looks as if it has been soaked in blood having such a bloody rich dark red color. After reaching the mushroom, Alvin touched it and activated his gathering skill again.

[Ding! Collected 1 stalk of Blood patterned Mushroom! NOTE: Well prepared Blood patterned Mushroom will immediately increase Vitality and strength attributes by 2 and 1 respectively. The remaining 2 points increase in Vitality and 2 points increase in strength will be gradually released over a five day period! ]

Alvin beamed with joy when he saw the effect of this Blood patterned Mushroom. He really would have regretted it if he had abandoned such a treasure because of the danger of the Silver Tailed Leopard.

He was now very determined that as long as the danger was not something that he could not absolutely handle, he needed to take more calculated risks. This would ensure that his rewards would be greater!

Looking around to make sure he hadn't missed anything, he started walking towards the beach to prepare a safe place to rest for the night. In such a place where he hadn't noticed any human habitation, it would be much more dangerous at night. He needed to quickly find a safe place to make use of the benefits he just received and also pass the night!