The System In My Head
Charismatic Evolution!
8 Days to live.
Ben had to admit that when the countdown reached a single digit, he felt his heart stop!
He's panicking! But what can he do? He has done everything he can!
Ben sat on his bed and thought about the recent events.
This past week, he spent every moment to develop his charisma and skills. He missed all his classes. He goes to seminars every day. When he did not attend the seminar, he read everything he could about the charisma in the library and online. He even found an ongoing university course related to motivational speaking, and sneaked into it!
He sought techniques to reduce public speaking anxiety and put them into practice. When the university closed, he took to the streets and made an approach, and even practiced motivational speaking as well.
Hows it? He approached a large group of women, not individuals. It felt more like public speaking in front of a large group, which helped him gain experience and reduce his nervousness.
Ben's efforts weren't in vain!
His first advantage was that he completed his weekly challenge yesterday. After many approaches, he got better and better. His studies of charisma and speaking motivation show real results in achieving success. In the end, he got two more phone numbers.
[Congratulations! You have completed the Weekly Challenge: Handful of digits - Get phone numbers from 3 women who are interested in you]
[Gift: Stat Points (Random) x1]
[Solution status: 3/3]
[Distribute reward: Stat Point (Random) x1]
[Set Stat: Karisma+1]
The system of rolling stat points into charisma. Ben disliked it because he had already developed charisma under the 100x boost of the Intermediate Level Stat Growth Multiplier. Still, he would not complain about free stat points.
No achievements this time, but it's fine. This is his new weekly challenge:
[Weekly Challenge: Kiss the frog - Kiss 1 new woman who is interested in you]
[Gift: Stat Points (Random) x1]
[Solution status: 0/1]
Ben wasn't sure how he felt about it. She has not kissed a girl since she reached puberty.but this is a necessary stepping stone. If he can't even kiss a girl, how can he seduce a girl within 8 days?
Ben knew he needed to step up. It is a good thing that with the recent gains, he is optimistic to achieve better results. The weekly challenge is just an appetizer. The main dish is the statistics!
[See: 5 - Average]
His appearance has not changed. Even though Ben keeps going to the gym, it will take a long time to see results now.
This is Ben's biggest advantage! His charisma shot from 0 to 7! 100x bonus is no joke! It was a valuable result for two years! Over the past week, Ben hasn't taken a leave of absence. The Stat Growth Multiplier made him concentrate and motivated to work on his charisma. He didn't try hard and this is the result!
Every morning, Ben wakes up excitedly to get a new stat! There's only one problem. Over the past few days, he learned more about the stat system. Seeing his charisma skyrocket, he understood one unfortunate fact — as stats increased, increasing it further became exponentially more difficult!
The stat system is not linear but curved. Ben felt this when his charisma reached 5 after 3 days, then it took a full 3 days to reach 6! That was almost 1 year of results to increase it by 1 point!
Raising each level is harder than all previous levels combined! The only reason now is 7 is because of the bonus status of the weekly challenge. Ben felt that if he were to use another Intermediate Level Stat Growth Multiplier on charisma, he might not even be able to increase it by 1 point!
The system won't make it easy to be superman!
Still, Ben has a stupid grin. From 0 to 7? It was a life-changing transformation! Although growth would be difficult later on, how could he complain? He was human shit 3 weeks ago! It's an evolution!
[Social Status: 2 - Get your life together]
Ben's face fell. The system never let him smile for too long.
[Application skills: 1 - Still more adept at insulting than others]
"You too!"
After opening up so many women, Ben's seduction skills finally earned the first point. It's not much, but it's the beginning.
[Knowledge: 4 - Beginner level students]
[Courtesy: 3 - Qualification of Barebones as a breeding slave]
"...Breeding slaves? What kind of society does this system come from?"
[Communication: 5 - Regular speaker]
His communication also increased by 1 of all exercises. The Stat Growth Multiplier does not cover communication so a 1 point gain in a week is already a significant result.
[Personal talent: 2 - You become very heavy on other statistics. Still an uncultured pig]
"Do you have to end the humiliation?!? I try to stay positive! I have a great speech today!"
Ben took a deep breath. He knew there was no point in asking for courtesy from this damn thing.
Today is a big day. It was the last class of the public speaking seminar. It's the day that everyone will give their speech and Ben will face Zachary. When Ben saw his 7 charismas and 5 communications, his face turned into an evil grin.
Last week, everyone gave him the nickname Stanley stuttered. Today, they're gonna turn him into a face-slapping Frank!
