Chapter: 265

[100 Exp]

“URGH” Jay pushed the huge fat rat off his body, albeit slowly.

He had taken a lot of damage, so next he checked his health.

[11.8/93]

“Fuck, I nearly just died… How am I so weak? I mean, I can take a hit, but seriously, I only did 0.1 damage with that punch…”

Jay immediately summoned Blue and Lamp to come protect him. His health was low; only a few more hits and he would be dead after all.

“I should’ve used the charged green crystal to end it, but in the heat of the fight I completely forgot.”

He picked his sword up and had his shield out, waiting for his undead guards.

After Blue and Lamp came, Jay had them join Sweeper and form a triangle perimeter around him.

Now that he was mostly safe, he finally had some time to think; analysing the fight.

“Now… What happened there? I am so weak…”

Jay checked his stats, there were no debuffs other than the [Stink] one. He looked at his sword next.

“It still does 8 damage…” He thought for a moment.

“I suppose that all this time, my damage only increased because I made better weapons… and I haven’t put any points into dexterity so I’m probably as slow as I was when I was level 1?”

Jay had a shattering realisation: His strength and dexterity had not changed at all since he was level one.

“…Am I just as weak as I was when I was level one?” he looked at his hands “It seems like the only difference is, is that I have more health and better equipment… Shit… I think I may have really fucked this up…”

“…What have I done…”

Jay shook his head, he felt like his heart sunk with hopelessness for a moment.

He felt pathetically stupid, like he was comparable to that noble brat who relied on his personal guards and expensive items to make himself strong – and what was the difference? He couldn’t find one.

Little did Jay know that Matheson’s progression was going quickly, he was changing for the better both mentally and physically.

“It’s not too late to fix this… I’m only level nine after all… I can start putting points into strength and dexterity… I can fix this.”

Jay nodded, trying to encourage himself.

“I should have put more thought into it back then… man, I really didn’t know what I was doing back then… taking it all too lightly.”

“Okay, my next points will all go into strength” he nodded to himself. It was his lowest stat.

“I’ll make it even to my 25 dexterity, and then raise them both as high as vitality.”