A few days have passed since I leveled up to level five. In those days I got the Restraint skill. It was hard to get because I had to hold on to an extremely fragile piece of ice and constantly put pressure on it without breaking it. My goal is to level it to at least level five before I make it to the capital where I will register as an adventurer.
Today is the day we are holding the coming-of-age ceremony. I was standing in front of the mirror in my room. I grew my hair out to about shoulder length. The black color really contrasted with the white of the traditional dress. I grew to about 5ft. 4. I sat down on my bed and started to brush my tail. It was the same color as my hair but the end of it was silver, the same as my ears.
I was taking extra care because Tamamo said she had a surprise for me today. I picked up a hand mirror to check if the traditional makeup was satisfactory. The makeup seemed to make the silver color stand out. Once I was sure it was perfect, I left my room.
I walked over to where my mother was waiting for me in front of the door to the innermost part of the shrine.
“Once we go inside, I need you to kneel in the middle of the room and close your eyes. Put your hands together and empty your mind. When you do that, you should hear a voice saying your skill is unsealed after a few minutes. Once that happens the ceremony is over.” She explained.
“That seems to be a bit lackluster.” I said.
“Normally there is a lot more, but since it’s you, it’s different. We don’t want to reveal your connection to the Goddess in front of everyone.” She said.
“Fair enough. Shall we go then?”
“Yes.” She then opened the door and led me inside.
I did what I was told earlier and kneeled in the middle of the room, put my hands together, closed my eyes, and emptied my mind. After waiting for a few minutes, I heard some movement from in front of me.
{You can open your eyes, you know.}
I opened my eyes and looked up to see Tamamo standing in front of me.
“Tamamo! What are you doing here, I thought gods weren’t allowed to descend to the world?” I said, shocked.
{I got permission to come down here for a short while to see you and celebrate this occasion.} She said with a playful smile.
While I was sitting there stunned, I heard my mother speak behind me.
“It is nice to meet you, Goddess.” My mother said while prostrating herself.
{Ufufufu. You don’t need to be so formal; you know. You are my mother-in-law after all. If anything, I should be thanking you for taking care of Luna all this time.} She said to my mother.
“It’s only natural. She is my daughter after all.” My mother said while sitting up.
After that, they spent a while talking about me, causing my face to turn as red as a tomato. When they were finished Tamamo walked back over to me.
{Stay still for a second.}
I did as she said and stopped moving. She placed a finger on my head and a bright light began to shine.
<Racial Skill: Fox Transformation unsealed>
{That should take care of that. Now, mother-in-law, can you take me to meet father-in-law so that I can give him my regards. I can’t stay much longer, so I want to at least meet him once.}
“Of course, please come this way.” My mother stood up and we walked out of the room.
It took a few minutes before we found my father training with his soldiers. My mother called out to him.
“Deacon! Come with us for a little bit!”
At first my father was confused until he saw me and Tamamo. He then rushed over to us, and we went to a private room. Once there Tamamo began to speak.
{It is nice to meet you father-in-law, I am Tamamo.} She said, introducing herself.
His eyes widened in surprise. He was about to start kneeling on the ground when Tamamo stopped him.
{Please don’t, I don’t have much time so there is no need for all that.}
“I see, then to what do I owe the pleasure of meeting you today?” He asked, still nervous.
{I came down here to surprise Luna as well as to give my regards to the two of you.} She said, smiling.
“Then it is a pleasure to meet you.” He said.
After the greetings were over, we all spent a while chatting when Tamamo started to shine in a golden light.
{It seems my time is up. It was a pleasure meeting the both of you.} She said.
“It was a pleasure meeting you as well.” My mother replied.
“Goddess Tamamo, please, take care of my daughter in the future.” My father said, trying to put up a strong front.
{No need to worry, she isn’t the only one who has been training to take care of someone. By the time she joins me in the divine domain, I will be the perfect wife.} She said.
“Then I need to step up my training as well, I don’t want fall behind.” I said.
{Ufufufu. I’m looking forward to it.} She said before completely disappearing.
After a few seconds of silence my father spoke up.
“Luna, make sure you treasure her in the future.”
“No need to tell me that, I already know.” I replied.
“Good, now if you excuse me, I’m going back to training.” He said as he stood up and left the room.
“He seems fired up.” I said.
“He gets that way when he is extremely happy. He will calm down after moving around for a bit.” Mother said.
“You do realize that you have the same expression, right?” I said.
“Oh. Well, I can’t help it. It’s not every day you get to meet a Goddess.” She said.
“I guess that’s true.” I replied.
“So, now that all your affairs are put in order, when are you going to set out?” She asked.
“I will go around and saying my goodbyes to everyone that’s taken care of me until now then set off tomorrow.” I answered.
“I understand, I will tell your father in a little bit. He has some things that he need to hand over to you.” She said.
“OK, I’ll head out then.” I said and left the room.
Author's Note:
Here is another chapter for today. I have some plans after this but when I'm done I'll try to get at least one more chapter out today. Now hurry, they're taking the Fluff to Isengard.
so @Paytoechip why did you decide to make all stats x 4 per level instead of getting x4 stat points than normal? because if its like this at lvl 100 every stat will have at least 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 maybe retroactively change it so mc gets like 100 stat points a lvl and every 10-25 levels times stats by 4? cause with the tails at 9 you get 3628800 stat points if you start with 10.... please rethink these cause huge numbers don't really work well in novels......above a quadrillion which is 1,000,000,000,000,000
Now that you mention it, you're right. I'll try to fix it.
At the same time. She is becoming a goddess. It's only natural that she is going to get stupid strong, super fast. Eventually, I assume the system will just break, and just say "inf" or "N/A" or something.
@Paytoechip i also had some others in my discord trying to help, I also calculated MP at level 100..... it isn't a pretty sight to see..... and one person is trying to make a better leveling mechanic
@Foxxy I see any help is welcomed. I will take the suggestions and do my best to incorporate them into the story.
@Mira_Zenon I think I will try that once she gets close to 9 tails.
I think it's a good idea, yea. Could also... make her the ever elusive 10+ tails, and make that break the system.
@Foxxy How about I keep the x4 but instead of every level it’s every 10 levels while the stats grow at a normal pace of like + 5 to 10 each level before 10. If I do it that way it will give an excuse to have a major jump in power every time she gets a new tail.
@Paytoechip the base stats times n where n = number of tails? that would still be 362,880 times base stats so her Vit would be 16+ million after all tails have been gained ontop of anything else done stat wise..... how good was the hero's stats...or a true dragon's stats or a god's stats? if we know those then we (discord group) know what bench marks there are.....
4x per 10 levels is also a ton......1,048,576 (4 to the power of 10)
@Foxxy How about x2 then?
@Foxxy A god’s stats are capped at 1 billion with an exception to the stat that matches their Authority. So a god of crafting could have a Dex stat that exceeds 1 billion. They also have infinite mana. True Dragons are basically Demi gods and have stats that stop at 1 million. I want to have Lina’s stats at around that by the time she has 5 tails. With the last 4 tails having her train more in her Authority which will be magic based. I hope this helps.
@Foxxy I’m thinking of having more tails starting at level 20 then one more every ten levels after that.
@Paytoechip What you could do is evolve her stats to letter ranking. F being the lowest, EX being the highest. Like so: [F > E > D > C > B > A > S > SS > SSS > EX] Then if you wanted to, you could add in like, low, mid & high tiers of each letter.
@Raizuto I might try that.
@Paytoechip and you could have it happen at like level 10 or something. Make it part of the story. Tamamo could explain why it changed etc. (I'm assuming something special happens at level 10 anyway)
@Raizuto Ok I think I will do that. Now I just need to think an explanation.
-System updating---- Updated-
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@Mira_Zenon That sounds good IMO & then it becomes exponentially harder to level at that point. XP points wise.
@Raizuto You guys need to stop figuring out roughly what I’m thinking. Even if it is going to take a while to get there.
Can't blame us though~ Your story is really good, and it's fun to talk about, and theorize.
What Mira said. I can't wait for more! Nothing wrong with us helping you out as well :D I do a lot of theorycrafting in my head & have read a tonnnn of LITRPGs (Good & bad ones. Yours is a good one). If you haven't read it, I suggest checking out Origin Seeker, it's great.
@Raizuto I’ll take all the help I can get. As for the suggestion I’ll try it out at some point this week.
@Paytoechip 5-10 stats per lv x4 so 20-40 sounds perfect to me. Her lowest stat vit at 20 per lv will end up little over 200 mil. Int at 40 per lv is over 400 mil. Could just say every 10 or so lvs over 100 doubles stats if you want them at/over 1 billion.
@dragosta While I am going to transition the stats to a letter system like in an earlier comment and will reduce the MP. I need some help figuring out how much to reduce it and how much she should gain per level up until level 50. Any suggestions are welcome.
@Paytoechip Hmmmm mayhaps the MP stat becomes a straight up % marker visually when she looks at it but if concentrates on it like a tooltip tells her how much mana she actually has. Like it says MP: 100%. Same could be done with HP as well. It could all be part of the new system update Mira suggested or the % thing could be done at a later point.
@Raizuto I'll do that then, thanks for the help.
@Paytoechip
No problem at all. Glad to help! <3
@Paytoechip
If you want something with brutal scaling but not as absurd as square numbers (or worse, n^4), why not try triangulars numbers?
n*(n+1)/2
So, let's say normal people get base stat * level, so 100x the stats of a lvl1 at lvl100.
At level 100, she would get 5050 times her level 1 stats. (100*101/2)
To keep things simple, you can add the stats gained by breaking your limits to the level1 stats retroactively and redo the calculation.
Edit : multiply that by 2^tails for good measure.
@Paytoechip if you get dizy about the status
You can put stat grow
Total stat= (stat grow rate x lvl) x 4(because her blessing) + bonus thing from equip
You can see exp from moba game
@Aurorakeane It’s already been dealt with in future chapters.