5 minutes later...
[Scan complete]
Name: Kevin Niday
Title: Imperial Prince (Political Influence +50%, Prestige +100%, Diplomatic Influence +35%, Access to Imperial Resources +40%, Talent Attraction +30%, Recruitment of Elites +25%, Learning Speed (Royal Tutors, etc.) +20%, Access to Rare Techniques +50%, Command Authority +30%, Reputation Across the Empire +60%).
Passive: royal protection +100%, succession priority (if applicable), easier audience with the Emperor, access to Imperial Archives, and royal lineage +10% to all stats.
profession: none
age: 05
str: 0.20 (0.22)
agi: 0.45 (0.495)
vit: 0.30 (0.33)
int: 0.30(0.33)
wis: 0.30 (0.33)
charm: 1(1,1)
luck: 2(2,2)
{AN: A normal human at 25-26 has 1.3 in nearly all stats; 0.4-0.8 in charm, which is innate and normally doesn't grow: extra hard or impossible surgery is one way; 0.5-1 in luck that is also innate and normally doesn't grow: extra hard or impossible; the stats in () are the final ones.}
Status: healthy
EC (Entropy Coins): 3000
inventory: 0/10
Passive skills: none yet
System passive skills: gamer body (muted), revive (greyed), entropy user, shop.
After seeing the full stats, Kevin was very happy because it means he was finally fully cured.
'What a relief, I'm finally freed from this weight; if this thing decided to continue its loading spree, I would have headaches.'
'I understand the abstracts, affixes and others, but where do the ECs come from?' after having scrutinised the panel, he asked the system.
[They come from your act of being alive; if 'you' died, many things and factions could have set many things in motion. To make it simpler, you being alive thwarted the plans and affected the lives of many people at many ranks in the society.]
'How are they counted?'
[If you affect mortal beings, depending on the number and social rank of the person(s), you gain at least 100 with a cap of 10000; for tier 1 beings, min 100000, etc., more answers when depending on your strength.]
'What kind of items can I find in the shop? Can I ask for an item that doesn't exist in this yet? or just don't exist?'
[Nearly all kinds apart from the living ones, yes and yes; entropy coins will do the job.]
'Okay, open the shop,' then he saw a dazzling list of items appear before his eyes.
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Available Sections:
[Knowledge Repository]
[Object Repository]
[Skill Repository]
[Project Repository]
[Blueprint Repository]
[Research Repository]
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Civilisation Database
✓ Royal Kingdom Standard
✓ Intergalactic Federation Standards
✓ Magic Empire Standards
✓ Magus/Wizards Civilisation Standards
✓ Immortality Civilisation Standards
✓ Lost Civilisation #00871
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Warning:
Items exceeding the user's biological tolerance
cannot currently be synchronised.
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'Wait, wait, where do those civilisations come from?'
[They are a compilation of all the civilisations that had existed in the past minor era.]
'How do you have access to this kind of information?'
[User life level too low for the query to be answered; raise your life level and try again.]
'Tch! If you think you can't answer my request, then why speak of it?'
'Explain what each section contains. The names ring something in my head, but it's better to be sure of it.'
[The knowledge section, as its name suggests, is about recipes, know-how, patents to create things, and even basic knowledge like language, world knowledge, etc.]
For the object ones, you can buy whatever has existed, or if you have enough, you can even customise some.
Skills are about secret skills, techniques, etc.
The project repository is like you asking me for an example to set up a business, and using the universe's past information and some degree of prediction, I can produce an adaptive project plan for you that updates itself depending on your progress and how the world around you changes. The less powerful people involved, the easier it is to predict, so the cheaper it is for you.
The blueprint is for a tech product, so you guess, for example, an assembly line...
Research is a mix of the four previous, mostly accumulating tech trees. For example, if you want to build a nuclear reactor, then unless you know what to research first or are not pressed for time, you will need to buy this so that you know which tech to master step by step to reach the nuclear-powered tools. It can also give you all the research logs of previous or existing civilisations on a subject depending on how much you are willing to spend.
You can change how it presents itself if you want.]
Seeing all that information, Kevin was stunned because it was more than what he thought he would have, particularly now that he has some currency.
He began to think about what was more important while also scrolling among the diverse categories, after which he came to summarise some rules:
Tier 1: Mundane Tech & Blueprints 10 - 100 EC ex: Glass Silvering & Mirror Crafting: 30 EC
Tier 2: Body Alchemy & Uncapped Skills 200 - 1,000 EC ex:
Skill: [Cellular Resonance Breathing]: $150 EC (The basic uncapped technique).
Passive: [Pain-to-Endorphin Conversion]: $300 EC (Ensures intense muscle strain/grinding feels good instead of traumatising).
Tier 3: Industrial Revolution Tech & Magic-Tech Hybridisation 2,000 - 10,000 EC ex: Blueprint: Steam Engine & Railway Systems: $2,000 EC
Tier 4: Magus-Busting Warfare 50,000 - 500,000 EC ex: Blueprint: Kinetic Railgun / Gauss Rifle (Anti-Magus Shield Sniper): $50,000 EC
Tier 5: Conceptual Laws & Space Tech 1,000,000 EC and etc.
After seeing all this, he thought about how some tier 1 things are cheap even though they would be hard to bring to life and about how he obtained the 3000 coins he has now and how they are named "Entropy" coins. He began to understand that his system rewards and encourages more influence and karma, perhaps long-term. He will verify it in the future along with the reward mechanism.
[Congratulations on understanding the system better!!]
'Tch, not even a bit of reward; anyway, it's already very badass, so let's not be too greedy.'