The Forgotten Faithful: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 2) by Cajiao, Jez (little red riding hood ebook TXT) 📕

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INDIVIDUAL:

Individuality is what separates all things from one another. You know this, and you can choose to follow this path, adding secondary effects to your Lightning Bolt spell at the cost of removing its ability to spread.

Choose one of the following three options:

Cleansing Light: Clears away status effects on the target. While this can be used on friend or foe alike, don’t expect to keep any friends you target with a spell this painful.

Stun: Grants a 10% chance to stun the target for between 3-10 seconds, depending on resistances and abilities.

Spreading Wildfire: Adds a 10% chance that this spell will cause combustible materials to ignite, creating secondary and tertiary damage.

I read the options over for a few seconds, then frowned, I didn’t really use this spell that much, but to Oracle, it was a favorite…

“What do you think?” I asked Oracle, and she frowned prettily, reading over the options as I went on. “It’s basically your go-to spell, so you choose,” I said, and she twisted to look at me, a brilliant smile on her face.

“Are you sure, Jax? I mean, this is…” she started, and I cut her off.

“I’m sure, Oracle. I use Lightning Bolt occasionally, but you love it. You can pick; I trust you.” Oracle gave me another brilliant smile, going silent for a few seconds in thought. Eventually, she reached out and touched the box where it floated in my vision.

She somehow made it shimmer, the option she’d chosen pulsing brightly for a second before fading back to normal.

“I choose ‘Stun’ then. I like the others, especially the ‘Storm’ option, but being able to add a stunning effect to our normal Lightning Bolt would be hugely helpful. To get that otherwise, we need to add water to it, and the chance of it activating ‘stun’ is still low, even then.”

“I’ll be honest, the fact it doesn’t spread concerns me a bit. I like using it with the water…” I said quietly, and she smiled, patting the top of my head reassuringly.

“Don’t be silly! This is an evolution of a spell; it’s not changing physics! If we use water, it will still spread. It just won’t do it on its own anymore! The original spell had a five percent chance to spread, and now it won’t; that’s all it means! Besides, if you really want a Lightning Storm spell, we can make one. It’ll be really heavy on the mana and have a weak effect for a while, but we know enough to make a rough one, and it would get evolutions at level ten as well.” I blinked as I processed that. It was pretty obvious; after all, I’d made enough changes to spells already. I still had the knowledge in my mind, it was just that the ‘Weak Lightning Bolt’ I’d been using for ages had become familiar enough to me that I could choose an evolution of it. I could literally cobble together another one and start using that instead if I wanted, getting that to its evolution at ten and choosing a different option then.

“Good point!” I said, selecting the ‘Stun’ option.

You have chosen ‘Stun’ for your first evolution of this spell. Your ‘Weak Lightning Bolt’ has evolved to ‘Stunning Lightning Bolt’, and now has an additional 10% chance to stun your target for 3-10 seconds, depending on mana channeled and your target’s resistance to Air magic.  

I smiled at Oracle’s obvious pleasure at choosing, and dismissed the last few notifications, finding that they were welcome increases.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Agility by one point. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Constitution by two points. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Dexterity by one point. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Endurance by two points. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Strength by one point. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Wisdom by two points. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

I grinned to myself as I read the changes I’d achieved, feeling them consciously for the first time, and I couldn’t help but pull up my stat sheet to compare see how I looked overall.

Name Jax

Titles: Strategos: 5% boost to damage resistance. Fortifier: 5% boost to defensive structure integrity, Chosen of Jenae

Class: Spellsword > Justicar

Renown: Unknown

Level: 13

Progress: 116,530/120,000

Patron: Jenae, Goddess of Fire and Exploration

Points to Distribute: 0

Meridian Points to Invest: 0

Stat

Current points

Description

Effect

Progress to next level

Agility

39

Governs dodge and movement.

Average speed + 290% (+10% increase in darkness, -20% in daylight)

7/100

Charisma

11

Governs likely success to charm, seduce, or threaten

Success chance +10%

89/100

Constitution

30

Governs health and health regeneration

HP+380, regen 23pts per 600s (+10% regen due to soul bond, -20hp, each point invested now worth 20hp)

3/100

Dexterity

19

Governs ability with weapons and crafting success

+ 9% chance to wield weapon successfully, + 8% chance of crafting success

33/100

Endurance

22

Governs stamina and stamina regeneration

STM +120, regen 12pts per 30s

66/100

Intelligence

26

Governs base mana and number of spells able to be learned

+140 mana, spell capacity: 13 spells (-20mp due to soul bond)

43/100

Luck

17

Governs overall chance of bonuses

+7% chance of success in areas luck affects

96/100

Perception

24

Governs ranged damage and chance to spot traps/hidden items

+140% ranged damage, +24% chance to spot traps/hidden items

72/100

Strength

21

Governs damage with melee weapons and carrying capacity

+11 damage with melee weapons, +110% carrying capacity

87/100

Wisdom

28 (23)

Governs mana regeneration and memory

+180% mana recovery, 2.8ppm, 180% more likely to remember things

81/100

Yeah, I’d take that, finding I was only a few levels away from gaining an evolution for Firebolt as well. I guessed that was because, even though it was my ‘go to’ spell, like lightning was for Oracle, I kept altering it so much, I’d delayed the evolution. I shrugged, looking around at