Chapter 13: chapter 12
After drinking some water from the kitchen faucet, I went to take a shower and took advantage of the time alone in the bathroom to check my status window.
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|Character Status|
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|Name: Lincoln Loud
|Level:01
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|HP. 80/80|
|MP. 160/160
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|Strength(STR):5→8
|Dexterity(DEX):6
|Constitution(CON):7→9
|intelligence(INT):17→18
|Wisdom(WIS):10
|Charisma(CHA):7→8 (Buff)
|Agility(AGL):5→6
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|Skills:
|(Barbering Lv25), (running Lv13→14), (bodybuilding Lv11→16), (teach Lv7→16), (negotiator Lv5), (sing Lv23→25), (Guitar Lv25 →26), (illustration Lv32 →33), (mathematics Lv30), (Boxing Lv1→5), (renovation Teakwondo Lv5)....
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|Buffs:
|(Beard and hair trimmed)
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My status was very different from the last time I saw him. In addition to the new skills I received, the vast majority of my other skills had been leveled at least once. With development I realized that every ten levels was a major milestone, like going from high school to college, to the point where the skills from level 10 and up really hit me hard, as if it was something I had already trained in for a year. The system was greatly accelerating the rate at which I learned and practiced things.
Seeing me gain a few more grams of muscle since yesterday was very motivating. Of course I had done weight training for over two hours in addition to the boxing workout I did, it must have revved up my metabolism today to an extreme level.
After showering and seeing how the video was going, I had dinner with my family and finished the evening with that, feeling quite accomplished with what I had done today.
The next day, even though it was Sunday. I didn't stop my morning workout routine, the difference was that this morning my dad was still sleeping, as it was the only day off I had, so I ate my toast just to keep up with the habit and went to workout.
Like other mornings, I didn't get any exercise assignments, which would have earned me free stats, but that's ok.
After an hour of walking I used my cell phone to watch a judo tutorial and continued another hour of training.
With these workouts some of my skills went up a level.
[Running Lv13→14]
[Aerobic Exercise Lv6→7]
[Judo Lv2]
The aerobic exercise now increased my metabolism speed by 7%.
The walking skill accelerated the development of my walking muscles and decreased the tiredness I had when walking by 14%. In addition to the Judo skill, it not only improved my learning speed, but also reinforced the amount of knowledge I retained, and because of this I had learned much more about this martial art. If at level 2 I felt like someone who had been training this martial art for a few months.
Applying the techniques that the instructor taught in the video was now easy, as I also realized that in hypothetical training situations my mind was already developing muscle memory to think of how to react in certain situations using my martial arts without me having to actively think about it.
Realizing all this, a confident smile appeared on my face. Even without weighing myself, I could see that this workout had an effect on my body fat, as my reflection in the mirror actually looked prettier.
Unfortunately, I didn't receive any points in [CHA], probably because the workout was helping to show my true face,
After showering, I pulled out my cell phone and checked how many views my video already had.
(4,116 views - 767 Subscribers)
Seeing how the video was doing, I was very shocked and excited. Looking at the analytics, I realized that MeTube was promoting my music well, out of these 4,000 views, 1,400 came from MeTube.
Out of curiosity, I opened instaFlan and saw that I had already reached 300 followers, which surprisingly was a lot of conversation from listeners to followers, as I was practically convincing other people to leave one social network to go to another.
The photo I posted yesterday in the training team stories had 600 likes and 79 likes, as well as some responses that I was interested in and went to see.
The total number of messages I had received was much higher than I imagined, to the point that the messages icon showed +99! Curious, I looked at the messages, and unbelievably, most of them were appreciative.
[Hey, I just wanted to tell you that your music really touched me, it made me feel less lonely, thanks for sharing your art with others.]
[Your music really made me reflect on my relationship with my parents, I feel that finally someone understands me, I hope we both can overcome our problems, thank you Ronnie].
[Ronnie, how about you send me a picture of you and I'll send you a picture of me as you like].
This last message was sent by a girl, just out of curiosity, I clicked on her profile and saw what a problem it could be. A girl probably in her twenties, tattoos all over her body, more than 10 piercings on her face and hair shaved on the sides? That was the definition of parental absence.
I couldn't deny it, she was hot, but I was sure she didn't know she was flirting with a boy who wasn't even 12 years old.
Shaking my head, I simply ignored this message and responded to the other messages as a thank you and a message of strength so that these people could overcome the difficulties they were facing. While I was replying to these messages, the rest of the family also woke up, it was always a sight to see so many people fighting to use the bathroom, after everyone used it, we went to have breakfast together.
"Are you going to cut my hair too, bro?" asked Luna excitedly when she saw that Lana and I both had our hair recently trimmed.
Smiling, I nodded and replied, "Of course, things are already organized, so I can cut your hair before you shower."
This wasn't the first time I cut someone else's hair, the first time I touched my hair, it was almost a week ago, then Lana asked me to cut her hair too, I even trimmed the ends of my mother's hair a few days ago.
Hearing my response to Luna, my father looked at us and I could see the pieces spinning in his mind, "You were the one who decorated the two haircuts?! That looks great!"
Laughing, he nodded and Lana explained that I cut mine and his.
Looking up, my father saw that her hair was already long and messy and asked shyly: :can you cut mine too? I haven't had time to cut my hair in the last few weeks."
Nodding, I agreed. "Of course, but first come , first served, Luna will have to be first since she was first in line."
Hearing that, Luna had a big proud smile on her face as she looked at me, while my father looked at us with a smile just as proud as Luna's, but for different reasons as he tried to feign sadness and accept that he couldn't be first.
After breakfast, the four of us went to the backyard while my mother sat in a chair on the porch with Lana beside her and the others went upstairs to their room. Since our yard overlooked the street, some neighbors saw me cutting Luna's hair, and asked if I could cut their children's hair too, honestly, I was planning to refuse, since I didn't even need their money. I especially didn't want to do it when I saw the neighbor's son. He was one of the kids playing that day when Lana was excluded. Why give a [CHA+1] Buff to a kid I don't even know, and worse, who treated my sister badly last time?
So I politely declined, saying I had something else to do later. I could train my haircutting skills more by cutting other people's hair, but with a family of 13 why bother?
"Which cut do you want? Something more social or a cooler, more youthful cut?" I asked my dad as he laughed.
Looking at me, he replied, "I think I want to go for a younger look, like you!"
Surprised, I looked at my mother on the porch, who surprisingly had a smile on her face upon hearing this, which she quickly tried to hide when she saw me looking at her. But it was too late.
So she also liked my hair, haha?
"It's okay, with this haircut you'll look 10 years younger!" I said, laughing as I started cutting her hair.
What I noticed was that well-cut hair gave a [CHA+1] punch to anyone who would cut. Even Luna and Dad also looked a little better after cutting their hair, and to a greater extent than they should with just a normal haircut. Maybe higher level skills have a bit of magic in them?
Leaving that doubt for later, I put away my barbershop stuff and went to my room to practice my guitar and singing some more.
[Singing Lv26]
[Guitar Lv27]
Since I could train singing anywhere, I had trained it much more than my guitar in the past few days, surprisingly I couldn't beat the guitar level, maybe talent also influences, but after raising to level twenty, the difficulty to level up had doubled.
At that moment I had a doubt, what song would I sing next? I had already published one song on MeTube, but I wanted to keep a high frequency of published songs, since now I could keep buying the copyright of all the songs until I would create my first album.
But I had to keep in mind, I currently had a few hundred followers, and these people were following me because they liked my music, which was rock style, telling them something sad that related to their lives, if I decided to sing an upbeat and happy song, it would be like shooting myself in the foot, as my current audience wouldn't like that very much. They wouldn't listen to it as much as they did to the first song and, consequently MeTube would recommend my songs less.
On the other hand, I could sing different styles from the beginning and not let my audience think that I only sang one style of music.
If I chose the first method, I would have rapid growth in the short term, however, the other option would take longer to grow at first, but in the future I would have more openness to do what I wanted,
So it was clear which one I was going to choose.
|||Author note|||||
I'm going to take 3 days to accumulate chapters, I hope they don't miss me too much.
Author out, cyaaooo <3