I washed up my face to clear my mind. For now I will go with the flow.
I suppose the next thing to check now is if I really do have powers, something I'm drawing a blank on, still not very sure. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm not dreaming or hallucinating since I can read the spines of the books I own and you really can not dream a dream if you know it's a dream. Actually, the very fact that I remembered about that little test leads me to believe that I'm awake. But just because I'm awake and I have weird information in my head doesn't mean I have superpowers all of a sudden. Maybe, it's just a side-effect of all those memories. But, still I can not still rule it out and have to test it myself.
I guess I could injure myself and- no. Just no. I don't feel like testing gamer's body in that fashion. Why would I even think of that?
I end up racking my brain and all six points of my intelligence and come up with one concrete idea by the time I head out for breakfast. So I brush my teeth, shower, and get dressed before joining my parents where I get a bit more proof that I might not be boringly normal Lucas anymore as I get to see something that surprises me a little.
And I didn't have to cut myself to get that either.
[Andrea Reed]
[Human]
That's my mom.
[David Reed]
[Human]
And that's my dad.
Just like with the information about my status page, I look at them and just know their names and that they're humans. I can't jump to any conclusions yet since I already knew those things and my brain could come up this information - or I at least assumed in the case of their species - but it means that all I have to do is find some random strangers and see if I get the same knowledge. And then figure out if it's accurate I guess. Shouldn't be too difficult since I already planned on heading out to the sports complex to test a couple things.
"Hey sweetie, set the table for me ok?"
[Routine Quest: Set Table]
[Reward: 5 XP]
Once again, info straight inside my head only it's a notification this time. Interesting. Looks like I just figured out how I can potentially go up to level twenty.
I quietly set up the table and got my xp. Quietly ate my breakfast, still coming to terms with this weird morning and thinking about my next steps.
It's official. I have powers.
So I moved around the block to test my hypothesis and was amazed to see that same window above everyone's head like I am in a RPG. To confirm whether these names were true, I went to a park, pitching my voice differently and then calling out names of perfect strangers. I didn't do it often but the few times they heard me the targets turned to look around them in confusion. It was a funny experience to see them clueless to who called them. Childish? Totally. Who cares? It was harmless fun.
That was all I needed to accept my new status as a gamer and I was giddy inside but didn't show it on my face. The gamer's mind was truly real and working.
My objective was figuring out what my stats actually meant. I was level nineteen but what did that mean? It sounded like a noob character but if others my age had the same level then it meant I was average. My stats also seemed pretty low but once again, can't be low if my peers had the same. Since I couldn't see the stats of those around me I went out to test my own.
The mental stats were hard to check and luck was impossible but I was pretty familiar with my physical body. Just had to do some exercises to see if anything had changed despite not feeling any different. And so I did. My pushup and crunch max hadn't changed and a mile still took me a sad seven and a half minutes to run at a pace I could maintain.
Really the only thing that was new was how fast I bounced back from that run. Normally I would have been wiped out for the rest of the day but in just thirty or so minutes I was perfectly fine.
That was some crazy superpowers shit right there, and I figured that superpower was known as gamers body. I was over the moon thinking about all the possibilities. For now, I came back to the present.
After those tests the numbers on my status page started making some sense to me.
The numbers seemed low but assuming I hadn't changed and neither had the people around me, I could make some guesses. I was seventeen, about to be a high school senior, and there were certain things I knew to be true. I was not some scrawny weak kid. I can handle my own business.
I was stronger than the average student who didn't work out at all. I was faster than most people in a sprint but long distance was not my thing. Stamina has always been the one thing not included in my free genetic package, and that too will be added to the package thanks to the Gamers body.
So knowing this, my seemingly low stats stopped being depressing and instead just became a numerical representation of my body. Made sense that my strength and agility stats were tied while endurance was behind. Intelligence was easily the highest which did not surprise me.
I was kind of lazy physically, but my grades were always good as my parents pushed me to do well in school. I didn't have much problem learning new things.
Wisdom was hard to explain but it looked good based on everything else. So did luck, somewhat.
You would think that the guy who gets powers in a world where everyone is a muggle must be super lucky with 777 stats in luck. But, It was not true. Atleast I was not unlucky and didn't have any problem with it.
I made the assumption that a ten in each stat would be around the peak. Like Olympian level athletes and top scientists. Again, that was just an assumption and it's actually more likely for the physical stats than mental. Humans have shown that it's their brains that keep them at the top of the food chain so mental stats could easily peak around fifteen or even more. I didn't know. Everything was a hypothesis at this point