It took nearly a weak to die. In the process Anon was bitten by a couple snakes, killed them, got ill with some kind of jungle fever and eventually was eaten by a crocodile. After picking one of the snakes to absorb powers from:
Name: Water Viper
Class: None
Bloodline: Lesser Wurm (basic)
Talent: Venomous (F)
Cultivation: None
System Add-ons: None
Level: 10
HP: 800 SP: 50 MP: 50
Stats:
Strength: 4
Perception: 8
Endurance: 8
Constitution: 6
Intelligence: 4
Willpower: 8
Agility: 8
Luck: 4
Skills: Quick Strike (F)
Techniques: None
Abilities: Swimming, Monster's Communication
Magic: Water Jet (F)
Experience: 0/1000
And then incorporating it into his build...
Name: Anon
Class: Pack Leader
Bloodline: Basic Human, Lupine, Lesser Wurm (basic)
Talent: New Game+, Friend of Fire (B), Stamina Boost (C), Venomous (F)
Cultivation: None
System Add-ons: None
Level: 1
HP: 2460 SP: 100 MP: 550
Stats:
Strength: 24
Perception: 14
Endurance: 8
Constitution: 26
Dexterity: 14
Intelligence: 28
Willpower: 16
Wisdom: 8
Agility: 16
Charisma: 9
Luck: 7
Skills: Howl of the Pack (C), Rage (D), Quick Strike (F)
Techniques: None
Abilities: Scent Tracking, Alpha's Aura, Monster's Communication, Fire Aura, Swimming
Magic: Flame Jet (F), Fireball (E), Water Jet (F)
Experience: 95/100
Anon proceeded to casually insult and belittle Loki, Loki's likely origin as a cow turd, Loki's lack of sexual prowess, and any other random insult he could think of while looking at the system descriptions of his new power ups.
Lesser Wurm (basic) (F Rank): Somewhere in the far distance of time you had an ancestor who was a greater wurm and some fragment of that power has clung to your bloodline. You are immune to most lower level mental and fear attacks. Your attacks hit and your dodges succeed 10% more often.
Venomous (F): Your attacks contain a low level venom automatically. All attacks that pierce the skin or similar defenses of your enemies inflict basic venom damage of 3 damage per second for five minutes. You are 25% immune to lower level poison based, corruption, acidic, and/or venomous sources of damage.
Quick Strike (F): 35 SP, Launch a very difficult to predict or dodge strike at the enemy. This strike does 25% more damage than your basic attack. Cool down: 2 minutes.
Water Jet (F rank): 15 MP/second, Unleash a jet of intense focused water at a single target. Targets hit by the jet will take 25 points of water damage per second. This spell can be used as a movement ability for the user or target the user wishes to move. This is especially effective in the water, but less effective if the target fights the effect of the water jet.
Anon was not out of insults when Loki sent him on to the next little bit of hell, another swamp. Unlike the last bit of slimy hell, it did not take a weak to die this time. Instead Anon materialized, slipped off the log he had come to a rest on, realized the log was in fact a crocodile and then was smashed repeatedly by its tail and then eaten by it's abnormally large jaws while he choked on disgusting swamp water.
Anon went right back to pretending to still be pissed at Loki as he rematerialized and then started in on the now standard work of upgrading his character sheet while stretching his imagination to make the insults fresh and spicy.
Name: Giant Croc
Class: None
Bloodline: None
Talent: Physical Enhancement (F)
Cultivation: None
System Add-ons: None
Level: 20
HP: 2800
Stats:
Strength: 12 (+1.2)
Perception: 8 (+0.8)
Endurance: 18 (+1.8)
Constitution: 12 (+1.2)
Dexterity: 10 (+1.0)
Intelligence: 2 (+0.2)
Willpower: 6 (+0.6)
Wisdom: 5 (+0.5)
Agility: 12 (+1.2)
Charisma: 1 (+0.1)
Luck: 4 (+0.4)
Inherent Armor: 2 (+0.2)
Skills: None
Techniques: Triple Smash
Abilities: Swimming, Monster's Communication
Magic: None
Experience: 0/1000
And then incorporating it into Anon's build...
Name: Anon
Class: Pack Leader
Bloodline: Basic Human, Lupine, Lesser Wurm (basic)
Talent: New Game+, Friend of Fire (B), Stamina Boost (C), Venomous (F), Physical Enhancement (F)
Cultivation: None
System Add-ons: None
Level: 1
HP: 5260 SP: 100 MP: 550
Stats:
Strength: 36 (+3.6)
Perception: 22 (+2.2)
Endurance: 26 (+2.6)
Constitution: 38 (+3.8)
Dexterity: 24 (+2.4)
Intelligence: 30 (+3.0)
Willpower: 22 (+2.2)
Wisdom: 13 (+1.3)
Agility: 28 (+2.8)
Charisma: 10 (+1.0)
Luck: 11 (+1.1)
Inherent Armor: 2 (+0.2)
Skills: Howl of the Pack (C), Rage (D), Quick Strike (F)
Techniques: Triple Smash
Abilities: Scent Tracking, Alpha's Aura, Monster's Communication, Fire Aura, Swimming
Magic: Flame Jet (F), Fireball (E), Water Jet (F)
Experience: 95/100
And looking at the new goodies...
Physical Enhancement (F): Improves all of your statistics by 10%.
Triple Smash: All physical attacks the user uses have a 10% chance to hit rapidly three times in a row with no ability to evade or interrupt subsequent hits if the initial hit is successful. Each subsequent hit's damage increases by 10% multiplicatively.
And then Anon screwed up. He couldn't help it. He knew RPGs, this is silly, Anon thought. Yeah ok, so I'm having to grind out the stats over my own dead body, literally. But I'm at level one, and I already have a class, two bonus bloodline upgrades, five talents, ridiculous stats including 6 exotic statistics already unlocked, three skills, a combo technique, five abilities, and three magic spells. It's absolutely hilarious. Loki has no idea what kind of monster he's creating, Anon celebrated. So... he giggled. Yeah, you'd think he'd know better... but, it was just too funny.
And, in that moment Anon watched the light bulb go on over Loki's head as Loki finally began to realize something was wrong. Loki looked at Anon closely for a long time as he hyperventilated while laughing at him. "So... you think you're hot stuff do you?"
"You've tortured me for some time now. I know you're a sadist, but don't worry, in due time you'll learn to be a masochist too..." Anon smiled sweetly and blew him a kiss. "Now send me on to my next farming opportunity and enjoy it while you can."
Loki's eyes narrowed slightly and a small frown pursed the lips of the self proclaimed god. Then the world dissolved.
Anon found himself inside a cave. The cave wasn't large, he managed to walk the entirety of the broken shard covered bottom of the cave in about five minutes. He had no trouble with that as the walls and roof of the cave were embedded with various large and small glowing crystals of various colors that seemed to ooze mana as well as shining light. Cute, Anon thought. Loki outdid himself this time.
Finding a flat stone in the middle of the cave Anon sat down. Time passed and despite going a bit stir crazy... nothing else happened. At all..... That was the strange part. Anon didn't get tired. Anon didn't get hungry. Anon didn't need to take care of any other personal needs. It was a bit like being back in the void. But, something about the cave and the shifting waves of energy coming off the crystals embedded into the walls made him sure that it was these crystals themselves which were sustaining him and keeping him from needing to attend to the normal needs of a human. So, Anon began to study the crystals and their energy. He first picked a large glowing red crystal and stared at it. He felt the energy coming off the crystal like a roaring fire and he began to pull that energy into his body. The fiery energy rolled through his body, seared his bones and flew along his nerves. And, while it was painful, it was also exhilarating. Anon could tell the power of fire flowing through his body was incredible. Slowly, Anon began to manipulate the power of fire flowing through him and to concentrate it into a single glowing orb in his chest. It took an unknown period of time, but eventually the crystal over his head was, well, not empty... but clearly low on mana. Anon could tell the crystal itself was producing that mana and if given enough time it would fully regenerate. Shifting his attention to another glowing red crystal, then another, then another, Anon compacted and enhanced the glowing red orb in his chest until finally he heard a faint **DING** and saw a message from the system pop up.
*Fire Core Created*
Anon smiled and then immediately shifted to a set of light blue crystals whose energy seemed to blow around him. Drawing it in immediately and the crafting of his wind core seemingly went much faster, though Anon still couldn't tell if any time was actually passing.
*Wind Core Created*
Then moving through the various colored crystals in the cave Anon created core after core.
*Water Core Created*
*Ice Core Created*
*Lightning Core Created*
*Earth Core Created*
*Life Core Created*
*Holy Core Created*
The light in the cave was significantly lower now. But, still... nothing happened. It sucks I don't know how to cultivate. I suspect that if I did I could make a lot of progress right now, Anon thought. Hmmm... Anon thought about it, but nothing occurred it him. He could tell that the cores he had formed within him were essentially special mana pools that he could pull from to power specific elemental attacks and abilities and that when used those abilities and attacks would be much more powerful than those same attacks powered by generic mana from his mana pool. Despite this definite upgrade he still hadn't seen anyone or anything. Nor did it seem likely that he would die while he was sitting here. Troublesome. Well since he didn't have anything better to do he thought about the possibility of creating his own skills or abilities or spells or something with these new elements. After some time playing with fire element energy he received an updated notification.
*Fire Efficiency +1*
Hmmm, neat... Anon thought. After some experimentation, Anon figured out that change in efficiency seemed to slightly increase the power of the fire energy and slightly decrease the amount of mana required to create the effect. Well, nothing to do but practice I suppose, Anon thought.
After a significant period of time, and real progress on each of the elements in his cores, the ground began to shake; and slams, bangs, booms, and thuds rumbled through the cave. Then the world seemed to end. The explosion of earth, air, and crystal around him seemed to literally blow the top of the cave off from above him. The damage Anon received reduced him to a gasping and wheezing mess with a red blinking 13 HP blinking in the corner of his vision.
Dragging himself up, he quickly started to run out and looked around for whatever or whoever had caused the enormous damage that had broken open the geode like bubble he had been trapped in. Up in the sky two figures clashed. Enormous lines and shapes or pure energy flashed back and forth between the figures fighting in the sky. Thunderous explosions erupted from each clash of energy until one of the figures clearly began to gain the advantage over the other and then they simply raised their arm and pointed at the now desperately defending and retreating figure of the other fighter. Instantly the sky was covered with storm clouds and a huge bolt of lightning connected those clouds, intersected the body of the second figure and smashed deeply into the ground right in front of Anon. The world slowly dissolved around him
Back in the void, sitting on his chair, Anon immediately picked the winner of the two fighting individuals.
Name: Umezawa Yusuke
Class: Cultivator
Bloodline: Basic Human
Talent: Idle Cultivation (S), Dual Cultivation (A), Earth Manipulation (B), Fire Manipulation (B), Lightning Manipulation (B)
Cultivation: Immortal Ascension (Peak Stage)
Core: Qi
System Add-ons: None
HP: 75,960 SP: 10,000 MP: 17,500
Stats:
Strength: 95
Perception: 89
Endurance: 76
Constitution: 96
Dexterity: 64
Intelligence: 90
Willpower: 92
Wisdom: 92
Agility: 92
Charisma: 80
Luck: 23
Skills: Earth Devastation (B), Earth Armor (C), Gaea's Resurgence (S), Inspect (A), Inventory (A), Access Inner World (S)
Techniques: Mountain Ending Celestial Art, Crystallized Thunder Art, Burning Thunder Art
Abilities: Universal Communication, Written Language Translation
Magic: Volcanic Explosion (A), Meteor Fall (A), Magma Quake (B), Thunderstorm Obliteration (S), Chains of Burning Thunder (S), Burning Lightning Strike (A), Lightning Bolt (B) Pit Trap (D), Superior Fireball (B), Superior Flame Wave (B), Flash Fire (D)