Universal Power System

[User has leveled up!]

[Current Level: Lvl 15]

[Reward: +100 Attribute Points, Random Ability Level Up, +2 Gold Coins, System Upgrade]

[Choosing Random Ability]

[Earth has been upgraded to Level 4]

The rewards weren't as great as some of the other rewards Mako had received after a major level up, but he wasn't complaining in the slightest as he had received an abundance of attribute points, his Earth ability was now level 4 although he would have much rather preferred one of his level 5 abilities turning into a level 6, but he was still happy, and on top of that he also received 2 Gold coins!

Mako wanted to open his profile to see if he could now finally progress forward and further upgrade his attributes but before he could do so more messages started flashing in front of his eyes and these couldn't be ignored.

[Welcome User!]

[The Universal Power System has now reached Level 3]

[Hidden Quest Complete]

[Upgrade the Universal Power System to level 3 in under 365 days]

[Penalty: System Termination]

[Reward: New Skill]

[New Skill Learned: (D-Tier) Influence!] ⓘ

Mako stopped the stream of messages right there, not even acknowledging the brand new skill he had just received as his eyes were glued on the penalty of the hidden quest.

"System termination!? What do you mean by that!?" Mako exclaimed.

[If the user had failed to upgrade the system to Level 3 which is the benchmark for the system meaning it is now 20% unlocked, the system would have considered the user unworthy and would have terminated its connection with the user, and begin searching for a more worthy host.]

"What!!?" Mako shouted, "What would have happened to me if the system deemed me unworthy?"

[The user would have died from the termination of the system from their body]

Mako was left utterly speechless as he couldn't even fathom the reality that this entire time he had been fighting against a timer; a timer that could spell his death if he was deemed unworthy by the system.

The good news was that he had beaten this invisible timer and had successfully proved to the system that he was indeed worthy to be its host.

"Wait... are there any more timers that are meant to check whether I am worthy or not continuously?" Mako asked the system, now very skeptical about the system and how it could potentially kill him at any time.

[Anything relating to future quests and challenges can not be revealed prior. Continue on the path of your choosing and the system will continue to drop hints to guide your way]

Mako wasn't expecting such a vague answer. As time has gone on, he has noticed that the way the system talks to him has become more and more human-like as if it's evolving which is quite literally what it is doing as Mako just levelled it up to level 3.

Mako was unsure about all of this, the system testing him to be worthy, it becoming more and more sentient, and the fact that it had kept a literal death clock hidden from him.

Thinking back to his great grandfather who had built the system, he could somewhat understand the system's logic as Lionel Grey himself said that this system was meant to be something that could make him stronger than even the 10 legendary warriors, he just had to work extremely hard to get there.

If the system had been entrusted to a lazy bum who didn't really finish tasks and progress forward, then Mako agreed that it was necessary for the system to move on and find a more suitable host that could fulfill the purpose that his great grandfather and his colleagues had programmed it to do.

After calming down his nerves and understanding that from now he had to make sure to keep working hard to remain worthy in the eyes of the system. Of course, he was going to hold the system up for dropping him hints whenever he was close to potentially being considered not worthy.

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With that out of the way, Mako turned back to the notifications tab and used the information button on the brand-new skill he had received as a reward for upgrading the system to level 3 in time.

(NEW!) [(D-Tier) Influence] ⓘ (Level 1)

[Upgradable!] ⓘ

[Influence is a psychological type skill that upon activating, turns on the user's charm. While active, the user's charisma stats are utilized to influence other people who make eye contact with the user. Those who have lower charisma and weak perception will be caught in a trance created by the user's charm, effectively hypnotizing them to follow the user's every command.]

[The strength of the trance is totally dependent on the user's mentality and charisma. It is also important to note that a strong amount of influence is required for an affected person to do a complex task against their will, if the trance is barely working and the order is too complex, the skill can fail resulting in the person regaining their complete senses.]

[Requirements: 20 Charisma, 35 Mentality, Unknown]

[Effectiveness: 20 Perception, 15 Charisma]ⓘ

[Effectiveness displays the amount of Perception and Charisma of a person this skill can overcome and influence at its current level]

[NOTE: This skill is currently a single target skill which means that it can only affect a single person at any given time]

Mako was blown away by the description of his brand-

new skill. Just like his Analyze Skill, this skill was special as this was his second upgradeable skill and this wasn't just a random skill that he had just happened to get from the system. This was a deliberate skill that he was meant to receive just like his Analyze skill.

Looking over the details, Mako could think of a thousand different ways in which he could utilize his new skill, but before got too lost in his thoughts, his mind reverted back to the requirements for the skill.

Not only was one of the requirements unknown, but one of the other ones was an attribute that Mako still had locked.

His Charisma!

The only attribute that had yet to be unlocked by the system, made it inaccessible for Mako.

Honestly, Mako didn't even remember that he had a charisma stat as it wasn't a requirement for any of his skills up till this point and he never really was big looks guys so he kinda forgot about it, but he knew that every attribute had a very important role in his overall journey and character.

Mako was a bit bummed out that he couldn't really test out his new skill right away as he still hadn't had charisma unlocked instead, he prompted the system to continue on with the notification; however, Mako had to pause them just a second later with a huge smile on his face.

"Well... Well... Speak of the devil! It's about time, you showed up!" Mako said while staring at the next message that appeared in front of his eyes.

[Charisma attribute has been unlocked]

Mako had been waiting for so long for this message to pop up in front of his eyes and finish the last piece of his character chat so he could finally be balanced in every single attribute.

Mako quickly opened up his profile which looked quite different from before and scrolled down to see that indeed there was a numeric value now assigned to his Charisma stat.

[Profile] ⓘ

[User: Mako Grey]

[Health: 500/500] ⓘ (+1)

[Energy: 5250/7000] ⓘ (+1)

[EXP: 0/100,000] ⓘ

[Account: 370 Bronze Tier Coins, 25 Silver Tier Coins, 2 Gold Tier Coins] ⓘ (+1)

[Level 15] ⓘ

[Strength: 50 (+60) ] ⓘ (+1)

[Agility: 50 (+35) ] ⓘ (+1)

[Perception: 50(+20)] ⓘ (+1)

[Intelligence: 50] ⓘ (+1)

[Mentality: 50] ⓘ (+1)

[Stamina: 50 (+30) ] ⓘ (+1)

[Charisma: 18] ⓘ (+1)

[Fortitude: 50 (+20)] ⓘ (+1)

[Attribute Points: 220] ⓘ

Other than the fact that his charisma was unlocked, there were a bunch of plus-one symbols next to all of his attributes alongside his health, coins, and energy as well. This showed that the cap over his attributes was finally lifted and now he could spend all of his attribute points to get crazy strong by boosting up his Strength, Speed, etc.

The EXP bar had also been reset and surprisingly instead of being set at 16 million as Mako had predicted following the general trend of how the EXP bar doubled every time with each level up, the bar was instead set to just a measly 100,000 EXP.

Mako was sure that all of this and much more was explained in the incoming notifications that he was currently suppressing, so before he jumped to any kind of conclusions of his own, he decided to just shut up and let all the messages read themselves out before he began to explore his new system all that it had to offer.