Chapter 37: What is the Missions Menu?

“Nine hundred ninety eight. Nine hundred ninety nine. One thousand!” Brian and Lucas yelled simultaneously!

“Fucking finally! Oh great super system, I want to spend my skill point on getting a faster reaction time!” Lucas said.

Enhanced General Nervous System Reaction Time: Rank 1

“I feel nothing,” Lucas said.

“Because you were too vague. If you had said something like visual reaction time, maybe you would see a significant improvement. You said general reaction time. That fits everything that has to do with the nerves system. Even hearing, touch, etc. So you’re not gonna see shit from that,” Brian said. “At least that’s my theory.”

“Fuck me,” Lucas said.

“Okay, my turn! System, I want to spend my mental skill point on a magical second brain I can outsource thinking to!”

Nothing happened.

“Okay that was too much to hope for with only one point. Lemme think… I want to spend my mental skill point on something that increases my visual capacity. I have the enhanced vision skill and I want something to reinforce it mentally!”

Vision Upgrade: ⅕ until Rank 1

“Ohhhhh shiiiiiiiit!” Brian said.

They discussed it for a bit.

“But then, why didn’t it just do the same for that mental brian think you asked for?” Jack said.

“Maybe because it was more vague and magical and he had no matching skills?” Lucas said.

“Perhaps. Anyways, let’s get back to grinding. Let's practise shooting these balloons and then we go to the wolf zone and kill them,” Brian said.

“But it’ll take me two days to make a siege engine?” Jack said.

“With no siege engine,” Brian said.

“You wanna get killed?” Jack said.

“We should be fine. And even if we aren’t, we are covered in armor. We’ll be fine. We can use those spear circles we made, maybe they’re still there,” Brian said.

…

Grinding with assault rifles required a different formation from using melee weapons.

On their left hips they each had their combat knives. On their right hips, they had their handguns. And in their hands, they had their assault rifles. On their backs, they had their big bags with supplies and space for loot.

From head to toe, they were covered in black Kevlar, except for their eyes. And on top of their heads they had metal helmets.

They walked in a somewhat close formation in a line.

“Here’s one! I’ll take it!” Lucas said.

He shot and missed. On the fifth shot he hit.

Lucas had one hand with no fingers and his dominant hand and dominant eyes were on the wrong sides of each other, so it was hard for him to aim. He had to squint weirdly to hit something.

A Balloon Monster appeared on Jack’s side. Jack was to the left, Lucas to the right, and Brian in the middle.

Brian’s marksmanship didn’t help him with assault rifles, but he was still better than everyone else at aiming.

Jack aimed, and took a shot. He missed. He took another shot and hit. The bullet tore through the balloon and he heard a loud POP, as it exploded into leather pieces.

“Fucking loud, the gunshots and the balloons,” Lucas said. “I might need an anti-tinnitus skill soon. Jesus christ.”

“Maybe we should have bought you a shotgun, easier for you to aim with that,” Brian said mockingly. Thanks to his body language skill it was twice as apparent to Lucas recently hearing all the sarcastic comments thrown at him.

“That’s actually a good idea. Also, fuck you,” Lucas said.

“When you gonna buy that skill you were talking about back in the motel room, Jack?” Brian said.

“I’ll leave you in suspense until tonight before we sleep. Let’s just get some grinding in for now,” Jack said.

They went over to the big wolf zone to start grinding there. They saw that the spear circles were still intact but starting to fall apart. They moved from spear circle to spear circle in formation.

Lucas was in the back of the formation and Brian in the front.

As soon as a big wolf rushed towards them, Lucas got nervous and sprayed and emptied his clip on the wolf.

“You scared?” Jack said.

“Go fuck yourself,” Lucas said.

“Don’t chew off your nails,” Jack said.

“Good one,” Brian said.

“Suck my dick,” Lucas said.

Life was a lot easier with assault rifles. But they had to head back to the balloon monster zone. The problem was reloading time. There would always be some wolf rushing towards them while they were reloading. So they had to have two people always on guard and ready to shoot. But even then, it was stressful. So they went back.

It was now night.

“Okay. I’m gonna get my skill now. Super system, I want to spend my skill point on this. When you took me to that summon, you showed me there is more to you. I want to spend my skill point on unlocking more of the game menu!” Jack said.

Missions Menu unlocked.

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Jack:

Knife Fighting: Rank 1

Knife Fighting: Rank 2

Python (programming language): Rank 1

Mana Generation: Rank 1

Sand to Glass Conversion Mana Blueprint: Rank 1

Healing Mana Blueprint: Rank 1

Origami: Rank 1

Enhanced Bodily Recovery: Rank 1

Speed Counting: Rank 1

Enemy Weakness Identification: Rank 1

Poetry: Rank 2

Blueprint visualizer: Rank 1

Mana Sense: Rank 1

Blunt Force Resistance: Rank 1

Pool: Rank 1

Mana Manipulation: Rank 1

Specialized Mental Sacrifice Ritual Focus Borrow: Rank 1

Typography: Rank 1

Enhanced Healing: Rank 1

Throwing: Rank 1

Acrobatics: Rank 1

INT: +1

Missions Menu unlocked.

Brian:

Shield Defending: Rank 1

Marksmanship (pistol): Rank 1

Right Arm Increased Strength: Rank 1

Mana manipulation: Rank 1

Mana Sense: Rank 1

Enhanced Propriosense in Toes: Rank 1

Enhanced Bodily Recovery: Rank 1

Flame Shield Dispel: Rank 1

Cryptography: Rank 1

Enemy Pattern Recognition: Rank 1

Airplane Pilot: Rank 1

Mana Generation: Rank 1

Enhanced Vision: Rank 1

Blunt Force Resistance: Rank 1

Finnish: Rank 1

French oil painting technique: Rank 1

Throwing: Rank 1

Acrobatics: Rank 1

Vision Upgrade: ⅕ until Rank 1

Lucas:

Insect Movement Control: Rank 1

Enlarged Penis: Rank 1

Mana sense: Rank 1

Mana Manipulation: Rank 1

Surfing: Rank 1

Arithmetic: Rank 1

Chess: Rank 1

Human Interpersonal Non-verbal Bodily Social  Behaviors Enhanced Perception: Rank 1

Blunt Force Resistance: Rank 1

Changing car tires: Rank 1

Water Mana Affinity: Rank 1

Walking: Rank 1

Mana Generation: Rank 1

Juggling: Rank 1

Throwing: Rank 1

Acrobatics: Rank 1

Enhanced General Nervous System Reaction Time: Rank 1