Aetherios System [Slow Build OP MC, Isekai LitRPG/Cultivation] Chapter 79: Chapter 74: Breather

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Chapter 74: Breather Chapter 74: Breather “How much time do we have?” Alex slumped to the floor, wiping sweat and blood from his face. “ What do you mean?” “ How long until the dungeon forces us to the next floor if I don’t enter the portal?” He asked. “ Ah, I see, ” Obby hummed. “ You can sit there as long as you’d like. The System won’t force you to go down. If you want, it will let you waste away and die here. ” He accessed the quest log in his status screens and brought up the fucking Trial timer once more. The timer that itched at the back of his mind every minute he had been abandoned to this crazy undead dungeon. It was the new internal clock for Alex’s existence after all. Universal Trial; Prove Yourself! Time Remaining; 697 Days, 9 Hours, 14 Minutes… Reward; Unknown “Well, we don’t have forever,” he eyed the portal to the next floor and sighed heavily. “I’ve played enough video games and read enough books to know that next floor isn’t going to be puzzles, or a mini-game.” “ What do you mean? ” “It’s going to be the Dungeon-Boss, Obby,” Alex frowned as he pulled out the little sentient pebble and looked at it. “First level is combat, second level is puzzles and skills, the third floor is the big boss, obviously. Come on, get your head out of your… granite?” “ So then what prep do you want to do? ” “First, rest a bit to heal up my body.” He began pulling items out of his bracelet as he talked. “Then cultivate and absorb that essence fragment some more. See what I we can figure out about this damn dagger, since I’m still trying to understand what it’s doing with the bond it has with me.” “ That’s a good plan, for once. ” Obby chimed. “Maybe we even have time for this,” Alex held up the tightly wrapped scroll that Sylvaris had given him. He had only tried reading it once, and found the information far too technical for him to understand. It was like a PHD textbook on aether theory, spellcraft, energy manipulation, and more. But now that he had more experience and new skill ranks under his belt, he might be able to give it a shot. He pulled up his status screen. Name: Alexander Pierce Experience: 8,323 Attributes: Strength: 9 (16.7%) Agility: 9 (26.8%) Vitality: 11 (6.4%) Wisdom: 8 (89.2%) Intelligence: 8 (77.0%) Willpower: 11 (62.3%) Skills : Glyphcraft – Novice – 16.9%, Alchemy – Beginner – 45.5% Abilities: Refined Vitality Tier II, Refined Willpower Tier II, Refined Body Tier I, Refined Essence Tier I, Aether Attuned Body I (21%), Aether Sight Enchantments: Lattice Spiral (Unique) Fighting Style: Demon Asura Style – Tier I Spells/Techniques : Flare – Beginner, Wave Shield – Beginner Seeing all those unspent experience points pained Alex more than he liked to admit. That mental anguish was offset by the impressive changes to the rest of his status page. His mental stats had the biggest change thanks to the puzzle rooms he had just conquered. The beatings he took from the lower level also helped with his physical stats. The most important change was to his willpower though, thanks to the new [Lattice Spiral] enchantment which pushed his willpower over the next threshold and giving him the next refined willpower tier. He found it interesting the push from the enchantment even gave him tangible stat gains. Did the glyphwork on his neck actually boost his willpower or… “Obby, I don’t understand,” Alex said. “Do my stats go up because by increase in power, or does my power increase because my stats go up? “ What do you mean? ” “I mean do my muscles get stronger because my strength stat increases, or does my stat increase because my muscles got stronger?” He was very iffy on the cause and effect regarding how all that worked. “This [Lattice Spiral] enchantment for example, increased my willpower. Did the enchantment really increase my willpower, or did The System update my stat to reflect the increased effective willpower from the enchantment?” “ Ah I see, ” Obby intoned. “ It’s a little of both actually. Spending experience p