"Wisdom: An nth-percent of the power to ascend to divinity. Grants the ability to view up to Level 1 information for all entities within one's perceptual range. Furthermore, it transcends the W System and grants the right to interfere with the MA Domain."
"Lord of Wisdom: Acquired Skills 'Pinnacle of Sorcery' and 'Star Mage.' Acquisition Requirement: Obtain 'Wisdom.' Effect: Increases MP, Magic, and Resistance stats. Provides a plus correction to the Proficiency of magic-type Skills. Grants Dominator-class privileges. Description: A Title bestowed upon one who has claimed dominion over Wisdom."
"Pinnacle of Sorcery: Assists in magical power control within the System, and maximizes all stat values related to the deployment of magical formulas. Additionally, MP recovery speed is set to its fastest, and consumption is set to its lowest."
"Star Mage: Applies a +1000 bonus to MP, Magic, and Resistance stats. Additionally, applies a +100 growth bonus when leveling up."
"Zoer, Level 3. Name: None.
Status HP: 236/236 (Green) (Details) (21up) MP: 1,431/1,431 (Blue) (Details) (1,120up) SP: 235/235 (Yellow) (Details) (20up) : 235/235 (Red) +799 (Details) (20up) Average Attack Ability: 287 (Details) (18up) Average Defense Ability: 387 (Details) (18up) Average Magic Ability: 1,365 (Details) (1,110up) Average Resistance Ability: 1,500 (Details) (1,110up) Average Speed Ability: 1,412 (Details) (70up) Skills 'HP Auto-Regeneration LV6,' 'Pinnacle of Sorcery (new),' 'SP Recovery Speed LV3,' 'SP Cost Reduction LV4,' 'Destruction Enhancement LV2,' 'Slashing Enhancement LV3,' 'Poison Enhancement LV4,' 'Ki Combat LV2,' 'Ki Infusion LV2,' 'Lethal Poison Attack LV3,' 'Corrosion Attack LV1,' 'Poison Synthesis LV8,' 'Thread Talent LV3,' 'Universal Thread LV1,' 'Thread Manipulation LV8,' 'Throwing LV7,' 'Three-Dimensional Movement LV5,' 'Concentration LV10,' 'Thought Acceleration LV5 (1up),' 'Foresight LV5 (1up),' 'Parallel Will (new),' 'High-Speed Calculation LV1,' 'Accuracy LV8,' 'Evasion LV7,' 'Stealth LV8,' 'Silence LV3 (1up),' 'Judgement,' 'Naraku,' 'Heterodox Magic LV3,' 'Shadow Magic LV3,' 'Poison Magic LV3,' 'Abyss Magic LV10,' 'Endurance,' 'Pride,' 'Overeating LV9,' 'Wisdom (new),' 'Dark Vision LV10,' 'Visual Range Expansion LV3 (1up),' 'Destruction Resistance LV2,' 'Blunt Resistance LV2,' 'Slashing Resistance LV3,' 'Fire Resistance LV3 (1up),' 'Lethal Poison Resistance LV2,' 'Paralysis Resistance LV4,' 'Petrification Resistance LV3,' 'Acid Resistance LV4,' 'Corrosion Resistance LV3,' 'Stun Resistance LV3,' 'Fear Resistance LV8,' 'Heterodox Nullification,' 'Pain Nullification,' 'Pain Reduction LV7,' 'Vision Enhancement LV10 (1up),' 'Telescopic Sight LV5 (new),' 'Curse Evil Eye LV3 (new),' 'Hearing Enhancement LV8,' 'Smell Enhancement LV7,' 'Taste Enhancement LV7,' 'Touch Enhancement LV7,' 'Divinity Range Expansion LV2,' 'Star Mage (new),' 'Life LV1 (new),' 'Burst LV9,' 'Endurance LV9,' 'Brute Force LV4,' 'Toughness LV4,' 'Idaten LV3,' 'Taboo LV8 (1up),' 'nth%I=W' Skill Points: 0 Titles 'Evil Eater,' 'Blood Kin Eater,' 'Assassin,' 'Monster Slayer,' 'Poison Craftsman,' 'Thread Weaver,' 'Merciless,' 'Monster Slaughterer,' 'Lord of Pride,' 'Lord of Endurance,' 'Lord of Wisdom (new)'"
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If this were a little while ago, I'd totally be screaming about how amazing this is.
I mean, I do actually think it's amazing right now too, but I just can't bring myself to feel happy about it.
Ugh.
Ughh.
Uuuuugh.
GAH!!
Aaargh, enough!!
I need to stop overthinking this!!
There's no point worrying about it anyway!
Even if these Administrator guys or whoever really exist, what can I possibly do about it?
There's nothing I can do, obviously.
What can one little spider do against godlike beings like that?
Absolutely nothing.
So I'll just keep living life the way I have been—doing whatever I please.
A stalker?
A peep show?
Bring it on, I say!
I don't care if you're an Administrator or a god or whatever—go ahead and burn my entire life into your memories.
I'll live like I'm on fire, and go out in a blaze of glory!
Just watch how I live!
Info!
What do you want, Body?
I'm on fire!
Yeah, right now I'm blazing!
No, I mean I'm literally on fire!
Huh?
The threads—your threads!
Eh, wha—!? Oh no!
I was so dazed I forgot to cut them and they caught fire!
What are you doing!? Instead of reporting to me, put it out!
《Proficiency has reached a certain level. Skill 'Fire Resistance LV3' has become 'Fire Resistance LV4.'》 Hot!? It's hot!!
Use Poison Synthesis! Hurry!
Got it—weak poison, come on!
Ugh!? I'm paralyzed!?
Oh no—I just added paralysis to the weak poison!
What are you doing!?
《Proficiency has reached a certain level. Skill 'Paralysis Resistance LV4' has become 'Paralysis Resistance LV5.'》 Hot! Paralyzing!
I don't need either of those! Ah-bah-bah-bah—! My HP's critical!
I'm gonna die! I'm dead serious, I'm gonna die!
Oh, HP hit zero.
Wait—!?
Endurance activates! Sacrificing MP as an offering—I revive with 1 HP!
Ohhh!
But I need to put out the fire or my HP will run out again immediately! The paralysis hasn't worn off yet!?
Come on, a little more... it's gone!
This time I'll synthesize weak poison without paralysis! And I'll set the amount to maximum while I'm at it!
Oof!? A mass of poison water just rained down on me!?
Ow. Got crushed and lost more HP again.
Ah, but at least the fire's out now.
Ah, yeah. I confirmed that Endurance works, so... all's well that ends well?
That is absolutely NOT all's well.
Don't worry about it—that's losing.
Anyway, what does it mean that this is what hitting HP zero for the first time looks like?
Don't worry about it—that's losing.
Yeah...
That brought my MP down to about half.
If I hadn't picked up Wisdom, I'd be dead for real.
I'm glad I got Wisdom.
Well, Wisdom is what caused this whole mess in the first place, though.
Don't worry about it—that's losing.
Skills really are convenient, huh.
Yeah, they are.
I don't know what purpose someone had in mind when they designed and distributed Skills, but might as well take what's given and make good use of it?
Yeah. Yep. Let's do that.
I tweaked the Status screen a little again. I received feedback that the title of Chapter 98 was a little much, so I went back and changed it. A bunch of people also pointed out that S15 was confusing, so I made some minor corrections there too.