Systematic Survival

51 - Skill Point

Matt looked over his system again and saw that he had received 1 skill point from the "survive" quest. He had a few guesses as to what it did, but if he was right, it was a really nice reward.

'It should somehow boost a skill right?'

He was tempted to just instantly use it on one, but he wanted more info first. Instead of asking [Help] there had been something he wanted to try for a while, but it always slipped his mind.

'I've scanned objects with my inspect, but I was wondering if it works on system features too?'

It didn't seem unreasonable for that to be the case. He also felt now that his inspect skill was level 2, he could get more useful information about it than before, so he used his inspection skill while visualizing the skill point.

It seemed to have worked as the info for the skill point appeared in front of him.

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[Skill Point]

Count: 1

A unit of measurement for points used to level up skills. When a skill point is used on a skill, it will increase by one whole level.

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'It worked! Also, increasing a skill by a whole level.'

His guess from earlier seemed correct. He could use the skill point to level up one of his skills. He looked over all of his skills and started to wonder which one he should level up.

He remembered he had just gotten new skills as well, but they were both level 1. Earlier, he couldn't increase a skill past level 2, so he thought that's where the skill point could be the most useful.

After browsing his current skills, he felt like the most useful ones were probably either mind palace or storage. He was curious to see what a level 2 mind palace would be like, but when it came to practicality, his storage skill was fairly useless right now.

'I feel like storage has a huge potential as a skill.'

In the end, he decided to save the skill point for storage. He also knew that this wasn't the only time he would ever get a skill point, especially if he completed more difficult quests often.

Once storage reached level 2, he would use the skill point on it to get it to level 3. Now the only issue was increasing it to level 2.

'Oh, well, I'll think about that tomorrow.'

There was something he had been wanting to try. The other large reward he had gotten was two new skills after he leveled up to level 4. Many of the system skills he had gotten so far were very useful, so he was brimming with excitement to check them out.

The two skills he had gotten were Message and Crafting.

'Let's try message first.'

He activated the skill and a new menu opened in front of him.

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User: #23563

[Inbox]

[Friends]

[Party]

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'Oh, it really is straight from a game.'

But there was a number that concerned him a bit, his user ID was in the tens of thousands...

'It's crazy seeing the actual number of beta testers... It really makes it sink in.'

But he knew, in reality, there were tens of billions of people on the planet. Thousands were nothing. So this number made sense to him.

He clicked through the menus and of course, his friends list was empty. At the top, it displayed a box that said "Input user ID to send a request.'