Priam began by opening his Tree of rit.
Trees of rit
Each new Title opens a new Tree of rit and allows you to upgrade a Tree of rit once.
Upgrading a Tree of rit to Tier 9 uses 10 Titles and thus condemns 9 other Trees. Be careful which trees you upgrade...
[Heartless] - Tier 0: Once a day, your heart regenerates instantly.
[Brainless] - Tier 3: Locked. Requires a Silver Title.
[Questor - Silver] - Tier 0: Your instincts are sharpening.
[Pseudo Phoenix] - Tier 0: Your affinity for flas allows you to manipulate uncontrolled fires.
[Axolotl or Hydra ?] - Tier 1: You can now regenerate your limbs faster.
[Apprentice of Hers] - Tier 0: Future ssenger, you are temporarily accepted by traveling to other worlds than Elysium.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 0: You are getting familiar with the mist.
[Upgrader] - Tier 0: You begin to feel the ethereal workings of your skills.
[Forerunner - Silver] - Tier 0: Your TA (chance) increases temporarily when you work on a project capable of improving the standing of humanity.
[To the Moon] - Tier 0: [Bullet ti] is automatically triggered when you are in danger of death.
6 Unused rit Points.
He had six points to spend, and so Trees interested him more than others. First, [Axolotl or Hydra?]srit had incredible potential but was only moderately interesting in Tier 1. Priam could get his limbs back once a day by resurrecting. Even with a thousand points of Vitality, and the Tier 1 of this rit, he wouldn't regenerate a leg in less than a day. However, he wanted to beco more resistant and restore his body more quickly.
Priam had been thinking. If each Tier was more potent than the previous one, he should favor completing one Tree. Spreading his rit Points over several Trees might be better in the short term but not in the long term. The important thing was to get to the top tiers as quickly as possible. To do this, he had to focus on titles he could easily upgrade. Indeed, the Bronze rank Titles did not allow him to unlock more than their third rit. He had to upgrade them to the next rank - Silver - as he had done with [Questor].
With [He Who Eludes Death], he was pretty sure he could upgrade [Axolotl or Hydra?]. What better way to improve a regeneration-based title than to injure his body as much as possible before regenerating by resurrecting? Only, the rit was not synergizing with his resurrection skill. He needed to change that to progress faster.
He connected to his Potential and touched the rit. He had to be quick, every second filled his head with ideas and consud the precious resource.
"[Bullet Ti]," he declared. The world slowed down and Priam's brain sped up. If the Potential was related to the ti spent under its influence, he might as well think faster.
Priam did not communicate his desire to the rit. Imperious, so connected to the Concepts, he was no longer a man. He was a God. He ordered rit to submit and evolve.
[Axolotl or Hydra ?] - Tier 1: You can now regenerate your limbs faster... Transformation due to the use of Potential.
New rit!
[Axolotl or Hydra ?] - Tier 1: The Tier 0 rit synergizes with all resurrections, recreations, regenerations, and other ans of restoring your body to its optimal state.
POT -80
Priam validated the rit. Tier 1 now allowed him to benefit from the synergy between his Title, [Humanity adapts] and [He Who Eludes Death]. The next ti he resurrected, his stats and resistance increases would be impressive...
His Vivacity inford him in real ti of the loss of his Potential, and Priam hurried. He had no ti to lose. The resource was too valuable to be so easily wasted. He consulted the following rit.
[Axolotl or Hydra ?] - Tier 2: When your body is in perfect health, your Vitality accumulates. The subsequent injury you receive will be healed all the faster because your Vitality has accumulated.
The Tier seed excellent but lacked synergy with [He Who Eludes Death]. Also, despite using Potential, he didn't know how fast his Vitality could accumulate. If he waited a week, could he instantly regenerate a lost limb? Priam didn't plan to survive a week. He planned to die every day to maximize his growth. If I can synergize this Tier with my resurrection, it might be interesting...
Under the epiphany of his Potential, he understood that the more drastic the modification of his rits, the higher the cost in Potential. The first rit had cost 80 points of Potential because it was different from the primary rit. Fortunately, Priam had chosen a rit close to his Title's objective and thus limited the consumption of Potential. But he did not have an unlimited amount of Potential. His next modifications should be more refined, closer to the original rit.
Without missing a beat, Priam focused on his other Trees of rit. He began touching them one by one to learn about the trees. All were excellent, but Priam imdiately realized that so would help him less than others, depending on his goals. There were a myriad of different ways to reach the Zenith and the Eighth Throne. But not all were for him. He had to choose a path that he could walk to the end.
However, these trees gave him ideas and thanks to his Potential, Priam did an introspection and understood himself.
He had always enjoyed optimizing his characters in video gas, but this was now his real life. He couldn't afford to get lost. He had to choose a martial path because, unfortunately, it was the only one that would ensure that he would retain his freedom and gain the power to protect his family and his ideals.
For this, many offensive builds attracted him. Strengthening his body to beco an immortal juggernaut. Becoming a shadow to silently assassinate his enemies as soon as they let their guard down. Sending devastating spears to annihilate his opponents from beyong the horizon. Preparing rituals, summoning elentals, imprisoning consciousnesses in their dreams, creating and feeding stars, drowning minds in a flood of false mories, manipulating probabilities to cause death... Each of these paths could take him far, but they were not for him. But there was no reason why they couldn't beco his tools. He would use anything to achieve his ends. Poisons, spears, rituals, domains, energies, information... Everything would be helpful.
Once again, Priam realized that he wanted to be free. He wanted to be the thief who could penetrate any fortressunseen. The warrior whose arrival made dragons tremble. The guardian who could protect his possessions and his loved ones. The mage who delved the depths of the arcane. A Jack of all trades, Master of All.
Claire had taught him that so would betray him. The Eighth Throne was not a bench. Only one pair of buttocks would rest on it and they would be his.
Lvl Up : [Bullet ti] lvl 2
PERC 3
POT -10
"For that, I have to be the best at everything. Go Big or go Ho," Priam announced. He had made his decision. He needed to look ahead. He collected the rewards offered for the twentieth wave.
Potential: Creation of a talent.
[Bound Weapon - Potential cost: 350
[Eidetic mory] - Potential cost: 2563
"I choose [Eidetic mory] as my reward," Priam confird. The choice was not insignificant. The System had been abruptly introduced. Little explanation had been given, and Priam had spent part of the last ten days pondering its attributes, their aning, and the other laws of the System. This new world was a ga, and the best way to win was not to play by the rules. An absurd number of living beings lived in this Universe, and in many eons, none had reached the Eighth Throne. If I want to beco the best, I must cheat. To cheat, you have to know the rules.
So of the Potential Priam had spent in the last minute had told him how useful mory was. At first glance, the attribute seed to be of little use, but it was crucial. Priam's life expectancy was increasing and it seed unlikely that he would ever die of old age. His Vivacity and the changes in his mind were constantly giving him more and more knowledge to retain. His Perception and Dexterity also gave him information about his environnt and his RAM had to keep up. Receiving all the information in the universe was pointless if you couldn't process and store it. Priam received this information with Perception and Dexterity. He examined it and used it with Vivacity and his Mind. But his mory was the weak link in his processing chain. Without the ability to store information, all his other attributes were limited. [Eidetic mory] solved so of these problems. Priam would still have to find a way to increase his mory or upgrade his skill, but he was no longer in danger of losing montum in his progression, held back by his miserable mory.
Reward received: [Eidetic mory]. Synergy with [Brainless] detected...
[Eidetic mory] - You used to have a poor mory. A simple shelf to store the sum of your knowledge. Your ntal space now has a vast library of information storage, half organic, half spiritual. Your mory is directly connected to your mind, and the loss of your brain will no longer result in the loss of mories. You can now access all your knowledge at any ti.
The description didn't seem heaven-defying, but Priam could imdiately feel the difference. The information processing was much smoother and his thoughts had beco clearer, even though he was already using his Potential. The talent synergized with all of his Titles and skills. All of his mories were dredged up, and Priam soon recalled all of his classes and learning. It would only take him one afternoon to crystallize all his knowledge into skills and recover hundreds of Potential points. To create his future skills, Priam would pay the actual price - no extra tax - for his forgotten knowledge. Jackpot!
POT -10
But Priam paused for a mont in his analysis of the rits. His new talent allowed him to review every decision he had made in his life and spot inconsistencies. So were understandable. When he was seventeen, he talked to his crush until three in the morning, when he had an exam the next day. Hormones could explain his foolish behavior.
However, after arriving in Elysium, he consud a deadly flower when he was sure he would die from it. He could have continued to search for a watering hole or used his scientific skills. He was able to separate water from the sap of a tree by evaporation using a fire before recondensing that water onto leaves. He had advanced scientific and practical ability but preferred to swallow an unknown flower without even waiting several minutes between his various tests. His reaction was incomprehensible and could not be explained by simple fatigue. Even thirsty, Priam would not have drunk sea water except as a last resort. So why consu this flower? I was manipulated. Sothing to watch out for when I get back to Elysium.
Lvl Up : [Bullet ti] lvl 3
PERC 3
Priam refocused on his rits. His Potential was dwindling.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 0: You are getting familiar with the mist.
The Potential that taphorically coursed through Priam's veins gave him information about this rit. Generally speaking, it was a prerequisite for improving the rest of the Tiers in this tree. In addition, the rit would bring Priam closer to evolving his Moon Mist skill while reducing the cost in Potential. In short, it wasn't a rit that would make Priam much stronger, but the dividends of this choice would more than make up for it.
Priam selected the rit.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 0: ACQUIRED.
Priam could feel the difference imdiately. His haze seed easier to control. He realized he was beginning to detect traces of water vapor in the atmosphere. With more Perception, he could certainly spot soone close to him without using his skill. With his new familiarity with his mist, his skill was interesting even when passive. Another advantage was the cost and range of his skill. So far, Priam had never reached his power limits, but filling the arena with mist had consud about half of his aether tank. That was without even densifying his mist.
One of his ideas was to make his mist dense enough to make it more opaque, even liquid or solid. If he could create ice spears and throw them at these enemies from any part of his mist, he could instantly attack several points. His range had also increased, and he felt he already knew his skill better. Without doing anything, just by summoning and wielding his mist, [Moon Mist] already seed to show signs of increasing level. Priam consulted the next Tier.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 1: The Mist hides you. You are one of its own, Mistwalker.
Priam bought the rit. Hiding had been the focus of his build since Elysium. It was handy for dodging enemy attacks, losing multiple attackers simultaneously, and entering forbidden places.
The young man's presence diminished. He was still there, fully visible to human senses - if they could pierce the opaque haze. But to an overly confident seeker, the young man would be a ghost. To an aether-based sensing skill, the young man no longer existed. He was mist.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 2: The Mist helps you. You begin your adventure, Mist Rider.
Priam opened his eyes. A frantic joy was filling him. It was what Priam was looking for. He bought the rit, and suddenly felt the mist asking him a question. Priam closed his eyes and felt the fog as an extension of his body. He was near the edge of the arena, and ntally he let his mind explore his mist to the center of the arena. Taking a deep breath, he stepped forward and rode the mist.
2 Unused rit Points.
Lvl Up: [Moon Mist] lvl 8,9
PERC 8
CHAR 4
TA (AFFI) 6
POT -22
Opening his eyes, Priam smiled. He was in the center of the arena. He could now travel through its mist. Or rather, ride it. Instinctively, Priam knew that where his mist was, so was he.
Well, almost. The trip had been instantaneous, but Priam's aether reserves had been impacted. He had used nearly a quarter of his reserves to make the trip. Moreover, Priam accomplished this feat on the first try because he used his Potential. Without this resource, he knew he would have to train hard to do this kind of feat so easily and quickly.
Finally, Priam felt he needed to rest his body. Despite the Potential, riding the mist and using [Bullet ti] is not good.
"My last throw depleted my body and my aether ducts. Or is it passages? ridians? Always more questions," Priam grinned. He refocused.
[Moon Baron] - Tier 3: Locked. Requires a Silver Title.
Priam knew that [Moon Baron]'s rit synergized exceptionally well with his intentions. Defense, perception, camouflage and now movent. [Moon Mist] covered all of his needs except attack. But maybe not for long...
Potential: Creation of a Talent.
[Bound Weapon] - Potential cost: 310
Already, 40 points saved. I made the right choice... Creation!
His connection to the Concepts intensified. With his new Talent and his previous experiences, Priam was ready. A supernatural force took hold of the spear in his hand and the weapon flew away. A flash of lightning fell from the sky, illuminating Priam's vision. A second later, he opened his eyes to see a new weapon. The spear was no longer hoplite, and it wished to be his.
The tip was just ten centiters from his forehead and Priam breathed in. If he was going to bond with his spear, he had to trust it. He nodded ntally, and the weapon leapt forward, piercing his skull.
Status: (Average value for a Homo sapiens male before integration: PHY 10 / N 10 / TA 0)
PHYSICAL:
Strength 86
Constitution 103
Agility 116
Vitality 164
Perception 176
NTAL:
Vivacity 132
Dexterity 107
mory 33
Willpower 69
Charisma 84
TA:
ta-affinity 77
ta-focus56
ta-endurance 1
ta-chance 40
Potential: 198
Tier 0
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