Challenge Accepted!

Mentally accepting both Quests, I then start to devise my plan for moving forward based on the current information I have available from both the Guide and the Quests themselves. In terms of the 'Bully Beatdown!' Quest, I have every intention of making use of some things I'd been collecting for the past five years. Ever since I got my first cell phone back in middle school, I've been secretly recording and saving every incident I could on a hard drive on my home computer. Literal years of video footage and audio recordings where Frank was bullying me or someone else and managed to get away scot-free with little more than a slap on the wrist. Maybe that can be of some use here. Though the details of the Quest raises some very crucial questions. Specifically, what crimes Frank Dickinson's been committing and getting away with? And which of his usual cronies was it who was committing them alongside him?

As for the other Quest, 'Breaking the Haughty', I actually snorted a bit at that name. Quite fitting. Though I wouldn't be against hate-fucking her silly as revenge against Frank by cucking him. But the thought of having a gold-digging bitch like Vanessa as a lover or mother to my child? Nope. Not happening. She's hot, but she ain't mother-material in my eyes. Especially since I honestly cannot tell whether Vanessa has anything redeeming her enough to be worth the consideration. Plus, the real question would be how I'd manage to fuck her first. I'm not gonna rape her. That's a massive turn-off for me. Rough sex? Yeah. Roleplay? Sure. But outright rape? Hell to the naw.

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[Good on you, stud. Keep that honor of yours intact as much and for as long as you can.]

Increased REP with Gaia

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Mentally nodding in acknowledgement and thanking my patron, I move on with my planning. Going over the Skill section in the Guide, I learn my total learnable skills through Skill Books, based on my current INT and WIS stats, allow me to equal about 50 skills through this method currently, give or take. Though surprisingly, the Skill Book for the Guide function didn't consume any slots, so I at least have some leeway there. While I would like to learn that Abyssal Kama Sutra skill, I currently do not meet its minimum requirements. So I'm going to need to do some physical training then, if I can raise my stats through that method.

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[You can. However, the higher the stat, the more difficult it will become to raise naturally.]

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Thanks for the confirmation, Gaia. Looking at my available skill points, I decide to save them for later, as in an emergency situation where I'll need an immediate and permanent boost. If a stat starts getting too difficult to raise, then I'll start investing my stat points there. Seeing as each stat levels up by at least one when I do(or multiple, thanks to my bloodline), I should be able to meet the stat requirements to obtain that skill eventually with enough leveling alongside my physical training. As for the Masturbation skill...looks like I'll have a justifiable reason to seriously start wanking it at night in order to max it out for the next few days, at least.

Which raises, the very important question of what skills and build should I go for? INT is my highest stat, followed by my LIB. Going through the Status Guide, I find out that my LIB score is a representation of how strong my lust, sexual vigor and vitality, cum output, recovery speed and my staying power is in terms of sexual actions, but it is also suppressed by my INT and WIS scores combined and mitigating enough of its detrimental effects on my ability to properly think clearly and properly plan things out. I still don't know what my stats are like compared to others of the same level, but grinding Observe is absurdly easy as I just keep casting then dismissing the windows of those I've already seen and analyzed. Slow and steady, but eventually I'll know where I stand compared to them with a glance.

And although the bloodline retroactively increased my stats to fit it, several of my stats are still too damn pathetic for my liking. And until I learn just who or what my father actually was, whatever build I make is going to need to be shelved for the time being to avoid a contradictory build that is completely incompatible with my bloodline. Once I do know what it is, then I'll consider how to efficiently move forward with my plans for my build. Which means I'll need to start grinding stats using ID Create. Checking that, I discovered by rereading the skill description in the Guide that I can create any dungeons, both empty for training purposes and filled with monsters for live combat training, loot and EXP farming, and potentially Event Quests.

Noticing the bus was finally pulling up to Ashcroft, I get ready to leave after everyone else had already moved. While waiting, I look down at my memento necklace, and on a hunch, I observe it for clues as to part of my father's background, seeing as he claimed it was a family heirloom. My brows practically shot into my hairline from what I read.

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Ring of the Primarchs

Unique Divine Grade Accessory

Minimum Requirements to Equip: 40 END, 40 INT, 30 STR, 30 AGI, and a Primus Bloodline

An heirloom ring only wearable by the Primarchs, the royal family of the Abyssal kingdom of Arcadia, and direct descendants of the Machine God Primus, whom they were named in honor of. The symbol of its next rightful King, this ring was created by Primus and gifted upon his demigod child long ago and has been passed from one ruler to the next uninterrupted for thousands of years and 27 generations until Arcadia's fall 20 years ago. It is a memento of the Gamer's late father, Benjamin Primus Newman, who gave it to him shortly before he died as part of his birthright and inheritance as the 28th owner in the family line. It has had an enchantment added upon it to shield and hide the Gamer's mana from detection so long as he does not use magic excessively, and has other secrets yet to be revealed.

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My brain had practically chosen at that exact moment to blue-screen from the information bombshell just dropped onto me. It took a few seconds for my brain to reboot from this.

What the fu-

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Quest: Origins Found-Objective Updated

Clues discovered: 3/?

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Trait Updated

Primus Bloodline(Dormant)

You bear the blood of the Machine God Primus, and thus are from a lineage of demi-divine royalty. Named 'Primarchs' in honor of their divine progenitor, their bodies tend to be stronger, tougher, smarter, and possess an inherent power over machines and technology. However, yours is still mostly dormant, and thus most of its potential yet to be unleashed.

Grants the Technopathy and Artificing passive skills. Upon awakening, upgrades to Technobrain and Technomancy as well as gaining the Passive Trait Demi-divinity.

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Technopathy Lvl 1/25

Gain the ability to connect with any electronic technological device through your mind. This is both an Active and Passive Skill. As a Passive Skill, automatically know and interface with any electronic device connected to an external network. As an Active Skill, you can hijack specific devices you sense through your Technopathy, but only those of sufficient electronic or technological nature. MP costs during active use vary depending upon the complexity of the technology being controlled or interfaced with.

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Artificing Lvl 1/25

An Active crafting skill of the initiate level. Can break down objects for their source materials and craft new items from them using existing blueprints or designs you create yourself with materials available. Can create basic items for now. MP costs vary depending on the item crafted or dismantled.

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Crafting Core Function unlocked!

Artificing Section of Crafting Function in System Menu now available.

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...okay. That really happened. I'm just going to shelf that bombshell for now to unpack later. I have far too much to deal with right now to even think about getting into this one. Though it does make sense. I've always had an unusually high affinity for tech and machines. Hell, my personal computer at home was a father-son project between me and dad a few months prior to his death. We never finished it together, but we put enough of it together at the time that I could finish it up on my own.

Well anyway, depending on what I find when I check those two places after school, and I'm going to more than likely be trying to work my way up to making magical power armor eventually.

Seeing the bus mostly emptied with Frank and Vanessa being among the first to already get off the bus, I moved to make my way to exit the vehicle as well and see the front doors to Ashcroft Academy. Passive Technopathy already working as I begin to sense the school's security camera systems as well as all the various cell phones everyone has on their person. Out of curiosity, I try to actively interface with someone's phone, and it actually caused the EXP bar for the skill to jump up a bit faster than passively using Technopathy did. Good to know. That, and that I can hack a person's phone just by having it within range of my perception.

Walking through the front doors of the academy while spamming Observe almost out of habit at this point to grind the Skill EXP, I failed to notice that three windows from three different people on three completely places within the hallway gave the same 'Error-Cannot be Observed' reading, or that there was no REP indicator, title, or level next to their names while heading to my first class of the day.