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<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Appraisal – LV5] has become [Appraisal – LV6]>
Oh hey there, [Appraisal]! This is great! I’m pretty sure that level ten is the max level, so right about now is about when you should start getting a little bit more useful, probably! With my heart pounding, I look up at my own [Appraisal] results.
{Small Taratect – LV 2 – no name}
{Status:
HP: 36/36 (green)
MP: 36/36 (blue)
SP: 36/36 (yellow), 34/36 (red)
Avg. Offense: 19
Avg. Defense: 19
Avg. Magic Power: 18
Avg. Resistance: 18
Avg. Speed: 348
}
What… did… you… say…?!
What? Whaat?!? Whaaaaaat?!?! Who the hell are you, and what have you done with the real Ms. [Appraisal]? The [Appraisal] I know is a disagreeable little brat that never fails to disappoint me! She’s certainly not a cool, competent beauty with a can-do attitude like you!! Where have you taken the real [Appraisal]?! I had a speech lined up and everything! “Ugh, useless…” That’s what I was going to say! Time after time after time I got my hopes up whenever you leveled up, “oh, maybe there will be some new little bit of functionality that will make this useful!”, but no, every single time, “ugh, useless…” and so on! Why do you tear apart my expectations every! Single! Time!! Tell me why! Tell me whyy!!!
Hhah! Hhahh! Haaahhhhh! I… haahhh… got carried away for a bit there, heh. Time to take a deep breath and calm the heck down. Inhale, inhale… exhaaaaaale. Yay, I’m back to my usual self again!!
Aaaaaaaaahh. It’s like [Appraisal] evolved, or something. This level gave me way more stuff than any previous level did. Seriously, this is one of the things I was hoping I could get out of [Appraisal] from the beginning! What’s with this sudden change? It’s like, I don’t know, a loser like me suddenly getting super hot in high school and becoming super popular. Ah, that’s a roundabout one, even for me.
In any event, this [Appraisal] enhancement is awesome. My previously-unknown strengths have been spelled out quite plainly. Plus, since so many of these things have been broken down for me, I’ve got some concrete things I can appraise now.
Now, just to make sure I’m not missing anything, I’ll double-Appraise all of the vocab words.
{Small Taratect: A hatchling of the spider-like monster species known as the Taratect. It is carnivorous, and its fangs drip with poison.}
{Avg. Offense: A measure of an individual’s average physical offensive power. As this is an average, the power of each specific body part may be different.}
{Avg. Defense: A measure of an individual’s average physical defensive ability. As this is an average, the defense of each specific body part may be different.}
{Avg. Magic Power: A measure of the average effectiveness of an individual’s magic. As this is an average, the power of a specific type of magic may be different.}
{Avg. Resistance: A measure of an individual’s average magical defensive ability. As this is an average, the defense may be different depending on the context.}
{Avg. Speed: A measure of an individual’s average aptitude for speed. As this is an average, the quickness of each specific body part may be different.}
Wooow, this is amazing. These explanation texts are getting pretty long, huuuh. Ms. [Appraisal], becoming this awesome, huh…
Umf. When it says “each specific body part may be different”, it’s probably talking about something like how a human’s hands and feet are different. Their offensive abilities are different, for instance. If my guess is right, then this stat basically lumps everything together and gives the average of that.
But, uh… why are my stats so low? I don’t really have anything to compare it to, so I don’t quite know just how low they actually are, but I did, briefly, hit level ten; even after evolving, my stats are like this. Lumped in there, though, is my speed stat, which is glowing a strange color. This is weird, right? It’s over ten times the value of the rest of my stats. I am seriously Speed-specced.
Ummmf. Well, now that I’ve got this, I really want to measure myself up against other monsters. Extrapolating from my previous results, it’s pretty likely that checking another monster’s stats will end in failure. I say “likely”, but, really, I have never actually succeeded in getting anything more than my opponent’s level. I’m pretty sure this is still going to be the case, even after my [Appraisal] level went up, but it never hurts to try…
So, let’s go look for some prey. Where, oh where, might I find something good…
…Aha, there! Alright then: Appraise!
{Elro Greim – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
Ah, yep, appraising another monster’s stats is still difficult, huuuuh. Oh well.
Well, it’s the first time I’ve seen one of these things before, so I’ll look up its species.
{Elroe Greim: A mouse-like monster species that is native to the Great Elroe Labyrinth. It is omnivorous, and its bite is poisonous.}
Hm? Wait up. There was a vocabulary word in that description that I can’t just ignore.
{Great Elroe Labyrinth: The world’s largest labyrinth, it contains the underground passages that tie together Daztrudia and Kasanagara continents.}
Well, this was unexpected, but now I know where I am. It seems this dungeon is called the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Yeah, I’d noticed that a lot of these monsters were named Elroe something-or-others, but to think that’s this dungeon’s name. World’s largest labyrinth, though? No wonder it’s so huge. The underground ties between two continents, though? Is this place under the ocean? Whoaa, no waaaay. That’s huge! Uh, am I even capable of escaping from a dungeon this big? Aaaah, I’m not going to think about this.
I check out the other two names I picked up.
{Daztrudia: The peaceful continent of the tribes of Man. Contains many different human nations.}
{Kasanagara: The continent at the center of the world. Has the largest surface area of all the continents.}
Hmmmmmm, okay. I don’t really have anything else to say here. I mean, if I can get out of here I guess I might want to try to avoid the human-populated Daztrudia, but it’s not like I have any way to pick.
Well, I managed to figure out more things about my current situation, and I did indeed pick up some useful trivia.
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