Wisdom.

The question was directly related to another one: What did he want to do with this new power? Strength was the obvious choice if he wanted to fight with his fists and close weaponry. Agility would help him become more stealthy and nimble. Endurance was a pretty good thing all around as not dying was a good thing, while Wisdom and Intellect would help his mana pool and regeneration, thus allowing him to use more skills. Charisma would help him get less hated and lastly Libido would probably allow him to jerk off all day.

That did sound pretty tempting but so did the thought of having the ability to use his abilities more often. Currently he created a skill whenever he did pretty much anything and the possibilities seemed endless. Also, the skills kept getting better if he used them. So what did he want to do?

He looked at his current skill list. His eyes fell on the three that he could use to define his style.

If he wanted to be a traditional mage surely Mana Power Attack was the way to go. The skill was costly at 10 MP so Intellect would be the best thing to raise. Sneaking on the other hand would put him into a more traditional rogue role, if he picked that he should raise Agility. Possession could make him some kind of Summoner in that he created minions to fight for him, of course these minions would also be himself so maybe Summoner wasn’t the correct term, maybe Puppeteer was more fitting?

John nodded to himself. Yeah, that sounded good to him, a Puppeteer. Of course only one level worth of points wouldn’t commit him into that direction but it seemed like a nice thing to work towards.

If he wanted to follow that direction the first thing he needed to do was level Possession. Currently the skill only allowed him to move slightly. To make levelling Possession more effective it would be best to have it run permanently. ‘After all, if I have it running all the time I could do something else by the side as it levels on its own.’ He thought and opened the status screen.

For higher mana regeneration, he would have to put his points into Wisdom. To have Possession run permanently he would need a regeneration rate of at least 6 Mana per Minute, as the skill costed 1 every 10 seconds. That was roughly 12 times what he currently had, so this was likely to be a long road.

‘Well, we all have to start somewhere’ he thought and put all of his five points into Wisdom. His Mana Regeneration went from 0,535 to 0,57, a marginal increase but an increase nonetheless. With that decision out of the way, he thought about what else he could need in the future. If he wanted to have disposable bodies fight for him maybe other kinds of minions would be helpful? He also needed some kind of defensive tools.

What he needed most of all however was a way to earn more Exp. Stomping these little Seedlings took a long ass time and it won’t get better in the future. Sure, currently the Exp needed to get to the next level was still pretty small but traditionally games needed more and more Exp to keep the Level Machine going the higher a character got. It was safe to assume that he at the very least got a few more levels before the jumps between levels would get more difficult though.

John currently only knew two sources of Experience: Quests and Monster Farming. As he had no control over quests popping up Monster Farming was the more reliable one. He sighed, it seemed that Seedling stomping was still his best bet. With his current Stats trying to fight something that actually fought back seemed like suicide.

‘What’s with this game’s entrance floor? It is way too steep!’ John thought and mumbled a few curses before smiling slightly. Even though the entrance was pretty hard he still could put points wherever he wanted, a massive advantage to anybody else really.

He thought about the problems for five more minutes as he had to wait for enough mana to regenerate and then used ‘Escape I.D.’ (The system shortened Instant Dungeon to that). Afterwards he went home.