Both sed ranks of Monstrous Physique and Herculean Strength were, without a shadow of a doubt, two broken perks. But they weren't the only perks I've obtained in these years ress and training. I also gaiwo det ones for my stant use of Medstims.

  | Medstim Addict | You've abused medstims so much that you've gained a slight regeion ability. +1 health regen per minute.

  | Medstim oisseur | You've used so maims that you're now an expert ihiim-reted. Aim you use or apply are twice as effective. +10 to health regeion a minute and +1 to endurance.

  Together with those two, I got one from my stealth skill as well for it reag 1,001.

  | Shadow Lurker Rank 2 | Requirements Stealth 1,001: Your ability to remain hidden from those around you has breached certain limits. This has resulted in your stealth attacks dealing 1% more damage for every skill point you have ih instead of the previous 0.5%. Along with a boost to your damage, you've acquired a unique ability to manipute shadows and use them in numerous ways that you will have to discover on your oart from that, your presence hiding field has received a majrade in the way of being turned into a stealth field. So, on top of the existing bes provided from the st rank, this stealth field will allow you to manipute the exterior of the field to appear as if there is nothing there. However, as strong as that sounds, if someoers that field, they will still be able to notice you potentially if you are in their direct line of sight and aren't trying to remain hidden. Last but not least, when you are lurking within the shadows, all speed reted stats will be boosted by 0.1% per 10 stealth you possess.

  Sadly, that's the extent of the perks I've gained in this period, sinone of my other skills have reached a point where they will grant me a perk. Despite that, it's not that bad because several of them are on the boundary of doing so. Hehe moment I turn those quests I've been sitting on all these years and spend my level ups, I will gain another power boost just before I start my quest of the wastes.

  And seeing how I've basically gohrough everything oat front and brought up quests, I should go over that . There's not much to cover here, but I did gain a new quest as soon as my enduraribute went over 101 in total value.

  | Exceeding Super Human Limits | Objectives: Reach a value of 101 in every attribute. Rewards: Perk | Evolver |, 100 attribute points, 1,000 Skill Points, and 1,000,000 exp.

  The other quest I received was when I began pying around with the idea of creating my future army's structure.

  | The Makings Of A New Power | Objectives: Create a military unit that is 5,00 with all the bells and whistles. Rewards: Perk | Supreme ander |, 50 Leadership Points, 250 Skill Points, 500,000 exp.

  This particur quest shouldn't take me all that long for me to plete its objectives once I bring that robot pnt online and begin pumping robots out. So I suppose I'll be doing quite a lot of leveling shortly after my departure.

  Okay, that does it for quests and really my progress in general for these past four years. I've made goress in magic, but because of my endurancreasing so mud me putting zero work into cultivating, I haven't gone up even one rank in several years. That said, I've increased my mana by 34,272 passively, more than doubling my already massive mana pool, which will increase a hell of a lot more when I actually start pursuing magic seriously...

  Whilst I was looking ba the past four years, I began doing the same for the st eighteen years I've lived in this world a moving, putting one foot in front of the other. After traveling through the rge gray crete halls of Genesis Foundry for more than a few minutes, I eventually reached my destination, my level up space. Wasting no time, I walked inside and shut the metal door behind me.

  From there, I took and ied over a dozeim Mk IIs and sat in the fy chair I had pced in the small room. Perf the st of my preparations, I ied twes of P-Dex and willed my system s ience. A split sed ter it appeared and the instant it did I navigated to the quest se and turned in both quests I'd been holding on to.

  | Maxigen Improvement | Objectives: Research, improve, and remove the ive side effect of the Maxigen drug. Rewards: Perk | Drug Researcher |, 5 Medie points, 5 Sce points, 2,500 exp.

  | Pablo Escobar Jr. | Objectives: Establish drug produ and earn 10,000,000 dolrs from the sale of your products. Rewards: Perk | Drug Kingpin |, 10 Medie points, 30,000 exp.

  [Rewards][Drug Kingpin, Drug Researcher, 15 Medie points, 5 Sce points, 262,275 Exp]

  | Drug Kingpin | You've established yourself in the drug and pharmaceutical industry and have made det profits from your products, but besides that, you've picked up a thing or two in your time in the industry. +100% t produ yield and your drugs and medies trade for 10% more.

  | Drug Researcher | Your experimentation and researts, medie, and other pounds was successful, making you a certified drug researcher. Whenever you perform any further researto this field, you will enter more Ahaa! moments. Plus, your research speed and the positive effects formus you've created or modified are increased by 100%.

  Those will e in hand when I get drug produ set up and going at the Cyberdynamics Robotics Facility and begin researg other drugs and chemicals or anything for that matter si says research speed and not something like drug or medie research speed.

  My exp rewards received the amount of level ups I had pending jumped to 8.

  Now that I've got those quests turned in, I'm ready to level up.

  With nothing holding me baymore, I initiated the level up and before I k; the s had ged from the previous status oo the perk sele s I hadn't seen in a long while.

  [ Perks ]

  Perk Points Left: 24

  Level 2 Perks

  | Growth Rank 26 | (Ranks Unlimited) Requirements Level 2: Gain 1 attribute point that you distribute freely.

  Level 28 Perks

  | Cautious | Requirements Level 28, Perception 6: When not moving, your senses are heightened and you gain +2 perception.

  | Grand Sm | Requirements Level 28, Strength 9, Melee ons 90: When swinging at an adversary's head with a two-handed melee on deal 100% more damage if the swing nds on the desired location.

  | Outdoorsman | Requirements Level 28, Survival 45: Gain experiend knowledge of a man who has spent most of his life outdoors. Additionally, when outdoors, your perception and agility receive a boost of +1.

  Level 30 Perks

  | I Smell Ammo | Requirements Level 30, Luck 6, Perception 7: Gain the ability to deteearby ammunition and find siderably more of it somehow.

  | Mental Pressure | Requirements Level 30, Speech 50, Endurance 7, Strength 7: Your presence is intimidating and has the tendency to terrify. With the increase in your scary factor, you also gain the ability to trol it and manipute it however you like.

  | Tech Junkie | Requirements Level 30, Intelligence 10, Repair 100, Sce 100: Gain immediate uanding of any teology when touched, no matter its ins.

  Level 32 Perks

  | Peor | Requirements Level 32: Your attacks will have an added -15 DT ohis perk is taken.

  | Water Breathing | Requirements Level 32: Gain the ability to breathe uer and no, you won't get gills.

  Level 34 Perks

  | Armor Smith | (Ranks 5) Requirements Level 34, Strength 8, Repair 100: All armors you've produodified are now 20% better across all parameters.

  | Silent Steps | Requirements Level 34, Agility 8, Stealth 95: Your steps bee silent and no longer produce sound and vibrations unless you wish to.

  | on Smith | (Ranks 5) Requirements Level 34, Strength 7, Intelligence 7, Repair 100: All ons you've produodified are now 20% better in all parameters.

  Same as st time I'm going to skip Backpacker because it only raises my carry weight by 100 lbs, which I get from my strength attribute every time it increases. So if I wao raise my carry weight I would be better off going with Groutting the attribute from that intth si also provides a damage bonus of 10% to melee ons and uhis goes for the Strong Back perk as well for the simple fact that it literally has the exact same effect as Backpacker.

  Skipping those worthless perks, I picked up everything else that was avaible, including all five ranks of Armor Smith and on Smith. However, I did not take Dad's Favorite and Mama's Boy, which were only beneficial for the +5 they provided in medie and sce. My reasoning for doing so was simple: why waste perk points on two perks that will only provide a small boost to two skills when I'm going to have over a 1,000 skill points to spend in a sed here.

  Looking at the perks I had selected, I began thinking of the various bes they'll provide me with going forward.

  The heightened senses from Cautious could prove very useful for disc hostiles and keeping my life out of danger. I could also see it enhang my senses fic. That effect would be especially valuable to me, I'm sure. Tech Junkie is also in that category, since I pn on visiting Area 51 to acquire alien teology that I will definitely have little to no uanding of, so I'm sure I will get quite a bit of use out of it then.

  As for Water Breathing, it won't be that helpful to me for a while, seeing as I'm in an arid state with very few water sources. That said, it will certainly be invaluable when it es time to veo the os and pay a visit to the uies I found in the surrounding os, mainly the Atntid the Pacific o.

  Aside from those three Silent Steps will be a nice addon to my already busted stealth skills. And Armor Smith and on Smith will improve my current kit and all the ons and armor I've made for my group by a huge margin. It'll without a doubt show its effeot long after we've left the fines of the uy and found some trouble ourselves to get involved in.

  The other perks are pretty good too however, they're not as hy in my eyes pared to the ones I've mentioned already. Like I don't think I'll need any help iimidatioment when I'm 6 foot six, weigh 450 pounds lean, and will be covered head to toe in an armored suit that will ter be repced by a power armor suit that will be even rger and heavier.

  Happy with the 19 points I spent so far, I dumped the remaining five perk points I had avaible into Groced the attribute points from that into luck, sidering that it was the only attribute I couldn't improve other than through leveling, quests rewards, and other such means.

  I wish I had more levels to spend, but this is all I was able to accumute down here with the very avenues I had avaible to farm exp from.

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