Aetherios System [Slow Build OP MC, Isekai LitRPG/Cultivation] Chapter 29: Chapter 25: Elements

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Chapter 25: Elements Chapter 25: Elements Everything went smoother than Alex had expected. Despite Garret's joking demeanor, he was actually a pretty good teacher. He thought that Garret wasn't picking up Celeste's lessons very well at the time, but now Alex could see that he had figured out everything just as easily as himself. Alex began to suspect that Garret was much smarter than what Alex thought him to be. He'd have to talk to him about that later. Once everyone understood how stats worked and what to expect during the refinement process, Garret had them start thinking about how they'd spend any experience that had been saving up. This was when another surprise came up. Everyone had more experience than Alex had thought, and he quickly discovered why. Hidden Quest Completed! Camp Defense Event: A force has invaded your camp. Defeat them, free your allies, and reclaim your territory. Or become a slave instead. Your choice really. + 300 Experience + Stake of Condensing Breath Everyone except Lance and Holly got the quest completion. Seemed that his teammates were given the same quest even though they were tied up and didn't do anything during the fight. Regardless, it was a welcome experience boost and Alex wasn't one to complain about such things. Alex was the only one to get an item reward this time though, even Garret didn't get one. Lance and Holly were not behind in total experience despite this. Turned out that Kate's mad push for power had their team hunting animals in the forest the entire time Alex and Garret had been gone. They hadn't run into any of the Kobolds during their hunts, but they had come across a few of the badgers that Alex still had an active quest for. That was another thing Alex had to get taken care of, before they were all overrun with the large dog-sized rodents. Alex brought up his status screen and after only a couple of seconds of thought, he dumped all the points into willpower to bring the base stat up to four. He had to try increasing his aether-gathering rate as much as he could, and he still thought willpower was his best option. He looked over his progress. Name; Alexander Pierce Experience; 0 Core; Stage - F; Fire (0.01%) Attributes; Strength: 3 (0.6%) Agility: 5 (18.1%) Vitality: 4 (3.6%) Wisdom: 2 (0.4%) Intelligence: 2 (0.0%) Willpower: 4 (0.1%) Skills: None Abilities: Refined Agility Tier I Spells/Techniques: None He hadn't gotten any experience for the fight itself. It was probably because he only knocked out Kate and her team, not killed them. It looks like the system only gives experience for kills. Kinda fucked up actually. Wonder what that is about. His physical stats did go up a bit from the fight. His strength and agility had a small bump. His vitality went up by one and a half percent though, that was a much bigger gain than the other two stats. Alex wasn’t certain about the reason behind the disparity. Is it because of the injuries I sustained? Vitality is linked to health and constitution after all, maybe taking damage and surviving improves it more quickly? It was a possibility. So then could he rapidly increase his vitality by being injured and healing from the wounds? Alex didn't have time to experiment with self-mutilation right now, so he filed it away in his ever-growing to-do list. Next he had to accept the item reward from the system. A long and thin metal object appeared in his hand. It almost looked like a railroad spike from Alex's home world, a cap on top and tapered down to a point, but it was thinner and rounded instead of boxy. Alex didn't know what it did, but he assumed it had something to do with the gathering technique which Celeste sold them, given the similar names. Still, he already decided not to try using it that moment and focus on getting everyone else situated first. They had months to try to get their cores upgraded, so what was a few more hours. He stashed the item in his bracelet. Out of sight and out of mind. He turned his attention back to