Now that I can improve my stats by performing significant actions, it was easy to test how to further improve it. I even had the perfect trait to grind at this moment.
In today's modern world where violence was frowned upon and the government had a monopoly of force, having very high physical stats isn't exactly advantageous from a practical point. It certainly beats being a weakling, and it's obviously possible to excel in sports or the military where such traits would be prized, but for the most part today's world put the greatest importance in mental capabilities.
However there is something else that posses great importance since ancient times.
Luck.
It doesn't matter if you're strong, smart or beautiful, if the opportunity doesn't come knocking on your door you will never prosper while on the other hand if you're incredibly lucky even if you screw up several times opportunity will always come back for you. More importantly, with luck your opportunity will come tailored specifically for you.
How many times people saw an amazing job that paid well become available, only to let it pass since you didn't had the relevant competencies to perform it? With high enough luck not only you would get opportunities, but the opportunities would be made specifically for you to take advantage right away.
In certain novels, that would be a know, quantifiable event called "Fortuitous Encounter".
Since I raised my wisdom earlier, a stat that by it's very nature should be very hard to improve, and my luck is listed as a common stat instead of a hidden value, then clearly it's possible to train it.
Even if I would later train those abilities, I would be well served with a high luck score and I have just the thing to maximize my luck gains.
Theoretically.
By a well thought out reasoning your Wisdom was increased by 1!
... I think my power is mocking me.
~~O~~
It took two hours to make it, and several level ups in
Scripting,
Art and
Speed Typing, but I finally managed to make the perfect tool to level up luck.
A type of button clicker game, where I had to click on a button and roll a six faced dice, harvesting all the six that landed in order to earn points. With those points I could buy more dice, get an auto-clicker and some other random upgrades that were inconsequential but made the grinding experience less of a boredom inducing nightmare. With a choice of nice upbeat music to pass the time I uploaded this simple, prototype game to a game hosting site to see how well it went.
If I were lucky I could even get some donations to my paypal account.
Now, to test the game. Starting from clicking the button for a while, then taking the new points and buying more dice in order to try and harvest more sixes, and so on and so forth.
~~O~~
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance your Luck increased by 1!
Through fortuitous happenstance...
Through fortuitous...
Through...
I had no words.
Once realizing I could indeed level up my luck, I started clicking like crazy but soon the trait started to take too long to gain another point. Then I started buying extra dice and things started to get crazy.
When I got ten extra dice the points started to get back, when I got fifty dice total things kept improving at a fast pace, at one hundred the dice I was starting to gain points like crazy.
At one thousand dice total my luck went up to such a degree that I think I found my first exploit of my power.
After a little over one hour since I started, my luck went from
nine to
eighty-four!
Not only that, but I even got a special skill out of the deal when I hit level fifty.
Golden Rule (Passive) (Level 1) (0.0%)
A mark of good fortune, making it so you never face money problems as circumstances conspire to give you money.
Increase Money Drop Rate by 10%
Increase Dropped Money Value by 100%
Gain 1% chance to randomly find Money when checking a new container
Idly, I checked the drawer of my computer desk and I found a single 50k Won bill stashed right in the back. Even if I had simply forgotten the bill was there in the first place, the simple fact that now I have it in hand is proof enough of my new found luck and skill.
I wonder what's going to happen at the end of the week.
AN: I finally found a good enough way to track down trait and skill level increases for my future or previous quests.